Testimonies of Healing

When I was a teenager, I was running errands with my parents on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. On my way down a long set of steps leading out of the local post office, I missed one and fell down.

I love walking and hiking. There is nothing quite like climbing a mountain and looking out at the view from the summit.

A dear friend introduced Christian Science to me over forty years ago. I knew immediately that this was the truth.

I was teaching a hybrid Sunday School class in which one student was on Zoom and another was there with me. The in-person student’s parents were attending church.

One afternoon, while waiting for my car to be serviced at a local dealership, I decided to go across the street and look around in a furniture store. I was eating pretzels, when suddenly, in the parking lot, I inhaled several small pretzels and my windpipe became blocked.

One day I was on my way to have lunch with a friend, and as I sat down on the bus, I noticed that a protrusion on my back was making it uncomfortable to lean against the seat. Even though I was somewhat distracted during lunch, I was still able to reach out in prayer to God, our loving, caring Parent, and felt peaceful enough to enjoy the lunchtime companionship.

In 1982 I got a job with the Uruguay branch of SOS Children’s Villages, a nongovernmental organization dedicated to the care of orphaned and abandoned children around the world. While working there I had my first healing in Christian Science.

In the fall of 2022 , I realized I had many healings and experiences practicing Christian Science for which I had never expressed gratitude. I began to write articles for the Christian Science periodicals that included these experiences.

In 2021, my husband and I built a second-story addition to our house to add a new office for my practice of Christian Science healing. The roofers were adding the last tiles to the roof when one of the workers came running for me, gasping that his coworker had just fallen from the top of the roof and landed on his back on the concrete pavers below.

“ Every trial of our faith in God makes us stronger. The more difficult seems the material condition to be overcome by Spirit, the stronger should be our faith and the purer our love” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.