Testimonies of Healing
There was a time in my life when a missed train, an impudent remark, or a flat bicycle tire made me fly into a fury. Sometimes the situations that triggered in me strong feelings of anger, disappointment, desperation, and fear seemed to be substantial and sometimes they were insignificant.
In 2009, I received a professional fellowship to spend a year in Germany. Though Germany was a country I’d never visited, and I didn’t know German, I was excited about the adventure.
Recently I was reading “Your questions and answers” in the October 2012 Journal , where the questioner commented on making Christian Science one’s own (Question: “ Do children need to make Christian Science their ‘own’? ” Answered by Richard Evans). This started me thinking about how and when in my lifetime did I really begin praying and knowing the truths taught in Christian Science for myself.
Not so long ago I thought I was doing all I needed to do for church by working as a Christian Science nurse. I decided that this was my church work.
Last year I began experiencing pain in my hip. The pain didn’t prevent me from doing my usual activities, so at first I didn’t take it seriously.
Sometimes sticking to the simplest truth can bring about healing. In this case it was: “Man is made in the image and likeness of God” from the Bible’s book of Genesis (see 1:26, 27 ).
I was really trying to know the Christ. I had been reading in the Christian Science Bible Lessons, the Herald and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy quite a lot about the perfect man, created in the image and likeness of God, though I was having a hard time understanding this concept.
After an especially intense semester as a university professor, I realized that something in my body was wrong. A constant feeling of weakness and dizziness caused me to slow down and move gingerly.
I was in the middle of moving into my new apartment, when I fell down and severely injured myself. Something had happened to my ribs.
One morning while vacationing in Maine, I awoke with all the symptoms of a cold. The Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lesson for the week was “Mortals and Immortals,” and I expected to receive inspiration from it to free me from this aggressive negative thought.