Testimonies of Healing

Recently, I was thinking about all of my healings in Christian Science since I became a branch church member. I realized that my most meaningful healings came about as I applied myself diligently to praying for situations in my church.

About two years ago  I noticed a painful lump getting larger on my neck. One night when my wife poked at it and asked, “What’s that?” I realized I needed to stop ignoring it.

It was suppertime on New Year’s Eve and I had just finished preparing for my church’s Sunday service, which I was to conduct as First Reader. Suddenly, I became overwhelmed with the symptoms of vertigo.

One day just before Christmas last year, my twelve-year-old son, Nathan, helped me have a quick healing. I’m a Christian Science nurse, and I was scheduled to work the night shift at a Christian Science nursing facility.

I was just concluding a three-year term as First Reader at church and thinking about how grateful I was that every Wednesday evening and Sunday morning I could look up and see the words “He sent his word, and healed them” ( Ps. 107:20 ) inscribed on the back wall of the church auditorium.

A number of years ago I developed pain in my hip. There were no bruises, wounds, or sores, but it became increasingly uncomfortable and painful to walk, sit, or lie on my back.

I’m grateful for a healing that took place some years ago after I’d been married about three years and had recently had a baby. When I took Christian Science class instruction, our teacher told us that reading a biography about Mary Baker Eddy, on an ongoing basis, was a good activity.

In the summer of 2009, I was outside working with an antique sickle (a curved, sharpened piece of metal used to cut long grass) to clear an area behind our house of weeds and brush. I had to swing the sickle hard to get through the undergrowth.

Three years ago, I rediscovered Christian Science, and had an instantaneous healing of alcoholism. It began a spiritual journey that to this day continues, with healings of diabetes, heart problems, and stroke along the way.

LAST YEAR, I HAD a small growth at the base of my neck that had grown larger over time, making me self-conscious. Praying on and off for healing over several months, I felt I wasn't making much progress.