What I love most about Christian Science nursing is what I love most about Christian Science: listening to the "still smallvoice" of God (I Kings 19:12). I won't say that I've always listened, but I love knowing that the answers are always there and that I'm always being divinely guided, whether it's a little step or a big step I need to take. As a Christian Science nurse, I encourage patients in their search to hear their own guidance of that same still, small voice that leads to healing.
I've experienced a lot of my own healings in Christian Science and have witnessed the healings of others. A few of them were turning points. For example, I had a long-standing case of internal and external hemorrhoids that had plagued me off and on for over 20 years. About 12 years ago, the condition became critical. A very good friend, who is also a medical doctor, told me the best way to be permanently free of hemorrhoids was to have them surgically removed. I felt certain this condition could be healed through prayer.
I spent a lot of time praying about the condition as well as having a practitioner pray with me. But I didn't get better. In fact, the condition just got worse. For about four months I was in constant pain, unable to stand or sit for very long, unable to lift any weight, and was only comfortable in a lying-down position. I was a visiting Christian Science nurse in Zurich, Switzerland, as I still am today. However, at the time, my nursing practice diminished because I couldn't do any heavy work.
