It is with a feeling of deep gratitude that I relate my first major healing through the power of Christian Science. From the time I was a little child and all during my youth, I suffered from so-called epileptic fits, which were very distressing. My parents consulted doctors and tried all types of material remedies, but without success. The doctors said that the trouble was hereditary and that I should have this sickness all my life. I could never be with other young people and enjoy dancing, gymnastics, or pleasures which called for active movement, without having an attack, and I was in constant fear of one. I was hopeless and in despair.
Then Christian Science came to me like a light in the darkness, and I began to study this wonderful teaching. When my healing came, it was a wonderful experience to me. It is now many years since it took place. It was at a Christian Science lecture about 1933. A translation of the lecture into Swedish was to be read, and my husband had been chosen to read it. All day I had been rejoicing in the thought of this lecture. I had to go by tram, and just as I got on it I felt symptoms approaching which would hinder me from making the trip. At first I was frightened, and tears of despair began to flow that I should have to turn around and go home again. But immediately I rejected that thought and silently repeated the Lord's Prayer and "the scientific statement of being" (Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, p. 468) during the whole journey, despite the fact that I was near collapse and my head was filled with chaos and dizziness. But I had set my heart on being at the lecture and had in mind only that this error would disappear forever.
When I got to the hall all discomfort had disappeared; the dizziness, the nausea, were gone, and I was able to walk by myself, astonished at the miracle which had taken place. The joy and gratitude which I then felt can never be described in words, and that lecture will always be to me a bright memory. I have never had a relapse. The error is to me now like a dream which never existed.
