Testimonies of Healing

For several days I would suffer from acute stomach pain whenever I had something to eat. It didn’t matter what I’d eaten.

Years ago when I was making the transition between my work with a local dance company and a new career, I had a healing of an inflamed and swollen eye. Although I was no longer officially working for the company, they would sometimes ask me to come to rehearsals and give notes about what needed improvement.

One morning in December 2021, I was busy getting a project finished, when I found myself on the floor and realized I had fainted. I was able to get to my cellphone and call a Christian Science practitioner to pray for me.

As someone daily striving to follow the master Christian, Christ Jesus, I am very grateful for the Holy Bible and the textbook of Christian Science, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Described by Mrs.

Several years ago , after conducting the Sunday service as substitute First Reader at my branch Church of Christ, Scientist, I tripped going down the steps from the Readers’ platform, slamming my head and side against a wall and landing hard on the floor.   Immediately, I mentally said, “No!” remembering that accidents are unknown to God and His children.

Since childhood, I’d had trouble with hearing. My mom and dad prayed with me, and my hearing would improve for a while, but then the problem would recur.

I was a senior in college when I was informed of a measles outbreak on campus. Upon hearing this news, I tried to pray as I had learned in Christian Science, but I struggled with fear.

As a young mother with a preschooler and a baby, I found myself faced with a challenging emergency one day when my husband was at work.   The preschooler had a little desk where she sat hammering small colored pegs into the perforated desktop.

When my father arrived at one of his first jobs in Rio de Janeiro, he found a copy of The Herald of Christian Science hidden at the bottom of an old drawer in his work desk. From then on, he began studying Christian Science and taking my siblings and me downtown to a Church of Christ, Scientist, on Sundays.

I remember the time growing up in India when my father introduced me to the Christian Science concept of God as wholly good and not the cause of evil, or the creator of anything bad. As a child I took to it, as I knew intuitively that God existed and was good.