Testimonies of Healing

I would like to share with you a healing I had in 2011. I went to Paris to visit my family with a friend who is not a Christian Scientist.

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.