Testimonies of Healing

The spring of my senior year of college I was on the varsity baseball team, and on a Thursday afternoon I went to baseball practice, as usual. We always started our practices with a metaphysical focus, followed by stretching as a team.

Years ago when I was a teenager, one day I noticed symptoms of a cavity in one of my back teeth. Since my childhood I’ve been familiar with Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, and I decided to treat the tooth condition through Christian Science.

At a Wednesday evening meeting at church last year, I decided to give a testimony about a most extraordinary story. A few months earlier, my son, David, had told me about a young freelance journalist who worked for him and had been captured by the Libyan military.

When I was taking Christian Science Primary class instruction, the teacher gave us the assignment to forgive absolutely everyone in our lives who needed forgiveness. This seemed a daunting task to me, so I procrastinated.

My wife and I had taken our small, young family, consisting of a kindergartner and a second grader, to The Hague, Netherlands, for a year, as I was on assignment as an exchange teacher. One day, the school nurse and the principal appeared at my classroom door and motioned for me to approach.

During the summer months of 2008, my abdomen began to bother me and I became unwell. I started to pray for myself right away, and on occasion I asked for treatment from a Christian Science practitioner.

I was getting ready to leave for the annual association meeting that I attend because I have had Primary class instruction from a teacher of Christian Science. As I lifted my suitcase to put it into the van, I felt a sharp pull, like a rip, in my right leg, and I also heard a popping sound.

One night several years ago I woke up with an excruciating pain in my side. It felt as if something had ruptured inside my body.

One afternoon while working with my husband on a condo remodelling project, cleaning out the attic space above the garage, I inadvertently stepped through a floor board and fell about 10 to 12 feet directly onto the concrete floor in the garage. Immediately, my husband said, “You are all right!” before coming down to me.

In a recent Christian Science Bible Lesson I read a Bible citation about the woman whom Jesus healed who had “a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself” ( Luke 13:11 ).   This reference reminded me of how grateful I am for a marvelous healing I experienced about two years ago.