Testimonies of Healing

I am so grateful to Mary Baker Eddy. Along with her discovery and founding of Christian Science, she had such foresight to include an avenue of spiritual growth for those desiring a deeper understanding of this rich and fulfilling religion.

One day I felt a severe pain in my abdomen. The pain persisted and became alarming, so I prayed with the support of a Christian Science practitioner.

Healing comes at times when we need it most. We are never separate from God, divine Love, and this thought of God’s presence became clear to me one evening.

It was the Wednesday before Christmas several years ago. Running to catch the train home after work, I stepped off a curb wrong and twisted my ankle.

I wanted to join a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. Why? Because I’d had a healing through relying on Christian Science.

A few years ago , in the middle of a church meeting I was attending about ministering to those in prison, I suddenly felt quite ill and thought I might faint. When I felt able, I left the auditorium.

“The best sermon ever preached is Truth practised and demonstrated by the destruction of sin, sickness, and death,” writes Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures ( p. 201 ).

Last year as my adult son was about to go out to work, he said he couldn’t find something he needed. We were living together at the time and I offered to help look for it.

For several years, I struggled with internal pain that was debilitating at times. I curtailed or gave up activities like cycling, hiking, or traveling because sitting or standing for long periods was difficult to do comfortably.

It’s incredibly reassuring to know that we are one with God, as taught and proved by Christ Jesus. Divinely loving, comforting thoughts of good from the one divine Mind naturally permeate our consciousness, even when we’re not fully awake to that oneness.