Christian Science came to me when, as a girl in college, I was earnestly praying for an understanding of God which would fit the new ideas I was learning from my professors. A co-ed shared her room with me when winter conditions made it impossible for me to drive home. She was a Christian Scientist, and we talked into the wee hours of the morning about her understanding of God. From then on God gently guided me to learn more of this healing religion until I was ready to join the church and become an active member.
During the ensuing years we have had many healings. One of these took place when our son was small. He became ill, and my husband, who was not a student of Science, had called a doctor, who said the condition was mastoiditis. Finally he said that there was nothing more that he could do. Since the situation was very acute, I got in touch with a Christian Science friend, who said she would pray for us.
One night as I was holding the child, he stopped crying and appeared gray and lifeless. At that instant I saw clearly that God was the child's Life, and I laughed out loud at the suggestion that anything could destroy Life. I repeated silently the twenty-third and ninety-first Psalms, then felt a closeness to God. After a few moments of rejoicing I looked down at the child and saw that his color had returned and he was in a deep sleep and breathing normally. I gently put him in his bed. In the morning the lump behind his ear was gone, and he was active and healthy. To my knowledge he has never had another earache, and that was thirty years ago.
