Testimonies of Healing

“Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands” ( Psalms 100:1 ). After reading this in Sunday School, I asked my student, who was about eight years old, how she would make a joyful noise to the Lord.

This author was bitten by a poisonous snake and, in learning more about God and His creatures, she was healed.

In her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy gives striking guidance to those confronted with an injury. She states: “Declare that you are not hurt and understand the reason why, and you will find the ensuing good effects to be in exact proportion to your disbelief in physics, and your fidelity to divine metaphysics, confidence in God as All, which the Scriptures declare Him to be” ( p.

Several summers ago, I was a counselor at a summer camp for young Christian Scientists. Before the campers arrived, I suffered a blow to the face playing soccer, and it appeared that I had broken my nose.

For many years I had repetitive and severe menstrual struggles that seemed to take over my life. I traveled often for work, so having days of pain and immobility were not helpful to me or my co-workers.

I rejoiced as I climbed back up a steep trail in Australia’s Blue Mountains recently, after going down it to see a beautiful waterfall. The trail was about 2 kilometers (1¼ miles) long each way and 400 meters (1,300 feet) in elevation change.

I found out about the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy through a niece. She told me it had been written by a lady who healed as Christ Jesus taught, and I immediately wanted to buy it.

Very early one morning, about 1:30 a. m.

It was a beautiful Sunday morning, and I was reveling in the activity of the Christ in my life. I arrived at church early to get ready for my Sunday School class and to go up to the chime tower in our church to ring the chimes.

When my daughter Anna was a toddler, she developed a severe case of eczema. She was in such discomfort she would wake up from a sound sleep and scratch at her skin, so she got very little rest.