"Are we really grateful for the good already received? Then we shall avail ourselves of the blessings we have, and thus be fitted to receive more." These words by Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health (p. 3) have alerted me to not put off any longer the writing of this testimony.
I became a student of Christian Science soon after I was married and have found it a very present help in the more than thirty years since then. I experienced natural and harmonious childbirths with our three children, the last two being born at home. Before becoming a student of Christian Science I had had a great fear of childbirth, as my own mother had passed on at the birth of my sister.
When our youngest son was a little over two years old, I noticed that he was walking with difficulty, and soon he couldn't move at all. At that time I was serving as First Reader in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, and was busy working on the preparation for the Wednesday evening meeting. I called the Christian Science practitioner who had supported us at the time of our son's birth. I endeavored to put the child completely in God's hands and continued preparing the evening service. When my husband came home, although he was not a Christian Scientist at the time, he did not ask to call a doctor when I told him a practitioner was on the case. When I returned from church, the condition was unchanged. I spent the night with the child, comforting him and singing hymns to him when he wakened and started to cry.
