My first testimony was published in the Journal in May 1953. Since that time I have steadfastly desired to understand and prove more fully that we may rely completely on Christian Science to heal sickness and sin and to erase fear from our lives.
Our daughter was healed of a badly burned hand when she was two years old. My husband, not a student of Christian Science, insisted on taking her to a doctor. I did not argue. I simply held fast to the truth of the child's spiritual identity as the image of God. The doctor did nothing to the hand, or to the child, except to cover the affected area to keep it clean. He told my husband this was all that was needed. In a very few days the child's hand was as normal as the other.
A few years later I realized the results of that healing were far-reaching. When our daughter ran up to a storm door at our home and ran her hand through a pane of glass, deeply cutting her wrist, her father was willing for us to clean and dress it at home and for me to do the prayerful metaphysical work. Before this time I had observed his great anxiety because the prayerful work appeared to him to be neglect of the child on my part, but now I was very grateful for his trust. Very soon the hand and arm were smooth and free of any evidence of the cut. We cannot tell which wrist was injured.
