Testimonies of Healing

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.

By 1980 I was beginning to feel the financial, family, and social impact of widowhood, and it had me very unhappy. I had to leave Arkansas, where I had made a good life and friends, in order to find suitable employment.

During January 2012, I was in Costa Rica, living in shared housing while volunteering for a sea turtle conservation project. One afternoon, one of my colleagues complained of a stomachache multiple times for more than an hour.

Though articles by me have been published in the Christian Science periodicals, it has been 50 years since my first testimony appeared in the Journal. So I thought I would celebrate this significant anniversary by writing another testimony of healing.

In October 2011, I suddenly lost the use of my legs. They simply would not hold me up.

Medical professionals said her knee might never work again, but the author experienced healing.