Testimonies of Healing

For me, the following statement has been an important guide when giving Christian Science treatment: “To be immortal, we must forsake the mortal sense of things, turn from the lie of false belief to Truth, and gather the facts of being from the divine Mind” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 370 ).

Many years ago, when I was first introduced to Christian Science, I was a member of a Congregational church; but I began attending a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, on Wednesday evenings and would go to the local Christian Science Reading Room on Saturdays to talk with the librarian. Having been given a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, I found the concepts, many of which were contrary to the doctrine I had absorbed in the Congregational denomination, difficult to understand at first.

One weekend three years ago, I was doing some yardwork in the woods. All of a sudden, my left arm was stung by a hornet.

I’ve had several instantaneous healings in my experience as a Christian Scientist. This healing took slightly over twenty years—but the instant the error was identified and then handled in Christian Science, it completely dissipated! About two decades ago, several difficult life circumstances hit me simultaneously.

My mother sought out Christian Science when I was in high school. One hour in a Christian Science Sunday School class was enough for me to realize that this teaching was something I wanted in my life.

I attended a Christian Science Sunday School as a child, but dropped out when a teenager, rebelling against what I felt were the restrictions it imposed on me. I wanted to have the “freedom” to live however I pleased, not realizing how destructive and unsatisfactory this sort of living would become.

Over the Christmas holiday a few years ago, some family members and I went to see a new model home that one of my sons and his wife had just finished building. I had seen the model home on a previous occasion, so I remained downstairs while everyone else explored the top two stories.

Christian Science is the most blessed gift we have on this earth. It shows us the laws of God—laws of health and harmony—which are applicable to every human condition and knowable by all.

When our first daughter was almost four years old, she suddenly became ill with flu-like symptoms. Both my wife and I had been raised in Christian Science and had experienced a number of healings over the years.

In Matthew, we read, “And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick” ( 14:14 ). Many of us yearn to heal as Jesus did, and are grateful for every large or small healing we experience in our own lives, or in others’.