Since my last testimony appeared in the Christian Science Sentinel in 1949, there have been many opportunities for me and my family to prove the ever-presence of the healing Christ as revealed to us in Christian Science.
On one occasion our daughter, then a teen-ager, was healed in a very short time of a broken bone in her ankle with the very prompt, prayerful treatment of a Christian Science practitioner. When friends tried to persuade her to go to hospital, it was our daughter's wish to rely completely on Science treatment.
I too had a lovely healing of very swollen and painful knees, which prevented me from standing or walking. I feel particularly grateful for this healing because of a lesson learned. With a home and family to care for, I had developed the habit of fitting in short periods of prayer and study at odd moments during the day, thinking I was much too busy to allocate time first thing in the morning for this. Problems that arose were not yielding as they should, and I felt sure that it was as a consequence of feeling overburdened that this condition of the knees came upon me. As a result of the inspiring work of the practitioner who prayed for me at the time, the need for more dedication and for putting first things first dawned on my thought, without her saying anything on the subject.
