It is indeed a joy to tell of my first healing in Christian Science, which took place about eleven years ago.
I had attended the Christian Science church for several years, and had felt the peace and happiness the services bring. While attending a Wednesday evening testimony meeting, I had a great desire to be able to prove what I knew of Truth. In a very short time, however, when a condition arose which seemed very real to me, I felt I lacked sufficient knowledge to demonstrate Christian Science, and went to a doctor. He informed me that the trouble was rupture. I left his office feeling that life would not be worth living if I had to believe all he said. In despair I went to some friends who were students of Christian Science, and told them of my trouble. Immediately they took me to a practitioner. I related my story to her, and. radiating joy and happiness, she said: "It is recorded in the first chapter of Genesis that everything God made was good. He did not make rupture or anything that wasn't good—He made only good." She added that all I had to do was to lift my thoughts into the realm of good—entirely away from self. All sense of fear disappeared, and I left her home feeling completely free, with a heart filled with gratitude that I had a clearer understanding of what God is. It was an instantaneous healing.
Two years later the problem tried to present itself again. After three days I called the practitioner, and I can never forget her words, "Why, God's work is perfect." She gave me citations to read from the Bible, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, and the Christian Science Hymnal. The next morning a great sense of gratitude came over me, and the thought came that it did not matter if I did not have any other friends in the world, God was my true Friend. The healing was complete.
