Testimonies of Healing

As a teenager, I experienced painful menstrual cramps. Sometimes the pain was debilitating, and I would dread the monthly cycle.

Last year, my seven-year-old son woke up before school one morning and had trouble getting out of bed. He complained his leg was hurting.

When I was in high school, I began drinking coffee in the morning to help wake me up. I soon became dependent upon it and found that if I didn’t have at least one cup of coffee in the morning, I’d be groggy and unproductive all day long.

One day, 15 years ago, while I was working as a seamstress at a friend’s house, the sewing machine’s threaded needle was driven into my left thumbnail, catching my finger under the machine’s darning foot. The puncture was not very deep, but I felt a stabbing pain.

Three and a half years ago I began to have frequent pain in my abdomen. I prayed about it for several weeks, but the discomfort persisted.

One night, I couldn’t sleep because I was coughing, my throat was irritated, and I felt weak. Initially, I was worried because I was the substitute soloist for a Christian Science branch church service the following morning.

In July 2011, just weeks after I started as First Reader at my local Christian Science branch church, I noticed a lump on my breast and discoloration. I immediately called a Christian Science practitioner to support me in prayer.

Sometime back I had to travel to an area in Honduras, which is five hours away from my home, to help take inventory of a store. As soon as I arrived, I was treated to seafood, and immediately after that I went to work.

When I first began studying Christian Science, in the first months of pregnancy of my first child, a medical diagnosis showed that the pregnancy was not developing in a normal way because of a problem in the placenta, which prevented the baby from being appropriately nurtured.   Faced with the diagnosis, the doctor decided to wait 15 days.

With immeasurable gratitude to God, who led me into Christian Science, I offer this testimony as proof of its efficacy. Of great importance to me is the spiritual regeneration that took place some years ago when, slowly, but surely, I was healed of ingratitude and an unloving critical disposition—which led to another healing.