With the joy of one who has felt God's healing power in her life, I submit this testimony. As a child I attended a Christian Science Sunday School intermittently, as my father was very active in another denomination. My mother presented me with beautiful leather copies of the Bible and Science and Health when I was ten years old. When I began to study these volumes daily, a knowledge of God as divine Mind, ever-present good, began to fill my thought. The understanding I gained of the true, spiritual family of God expanded, and later was practical in protecting and providing for my four sons.
I wish to share one particular healing that involved one boy's teeth. After a dentist had cleaned them, he recommended immediate orthodontic work to straighten the eyeteeth. Upon hearing this, I instantly thought, "No!" This sentence from Science and Health came to me: "Man is God's reflection, needing no cultivation, but ever beautiful and complete"(p. 527). Maintaining this truth as the actual and only fact governing the situation, I discussed with the child the perfect positioning of all right ideas in divine Mind. We prayed to understand that teeth represent such spiritual ideas as usefulness and strength. About a week later I rejoiced to see that the two teeth, which had been growing sideways, were straight and correctly positioned. For me this was clear proof that the application of God's laws is effective.
A second son experienced a quick healing of what appeared to be a severe attack of appendicitis. He was attending a youth camp sponsored by a local community organization when I received a midnight call from the camp director. He informed me he would have to take my son to a local hospital immediately, because the camp medical staff said he had appendicitis. I thanked the director for calling, reminding him that we were Christian Scientists; before camp began we had requested no medical treatment for the child, and had filed a state-approved document on his behalf, electing to rely on prayer for healing. The director agreed to keep the boy in his bunk until I could make the two-hour drive to the camp. Waking his brothers, I asked that they keep their thoughts full of the truth of God and man as I made the trip. As I drove, gratitude for God's allness, for His constant care of His children, and for the spiritual identity of man filled my thought. I felt the presence of the healing Christ.
