Testimonies of Healing

I was teaching a hybrid Sunday School class in which one student was on Zoom and another was there with me. The in-person student’s parents were attending church.

As a young mother with a preschooler and a baby, I found myself faced with a challenging emergency one day when my husband was at work.   The preschooler had a little desk where she sat hammering small colored pegs into the perforated desktop.

I remember the time growing up in India when my father introduced me to the Christian Science concept of God as wholly good and not the cause of evil, or the creator of anything bad. As a child I took to it, as I knew intuitively that God existed and was good.

I love walking and hiking. There is nothing quite like climbing a mountain and looking out at the view from the summit.

When my father arrived at one of his first jobs in Rio de Janeiro, he found a copy of The Herald of Christian Science hidden at the bottom of an old drawer in his work desk. From then on, he began studying Christian Science and taking my siblings and me downtown to a Church of Christ, Scientist, on Sundays.

In the fall of 2022 , I realized I had many healings and experiences practicing Christian Science for which I had never expressed gratitude. I began to write articles for the Christian Science periodicals that included these experiences.

One afternoon, while waiting for my car to be serviced at a local dealership, I decided to go across the street and look around in a furniture store. I was eating pretzels, when suddenly, in the parking lot, I inhaled several small pretzels and my windpipe became blocked.

One day I was on my way to have lunch with a friend, and as I sat down on the bus, I noticed that a protrusion on my back was making it uncomfortable to lean against the seat. Even though I was somewhat distracted during lunch, I was still able to reach out in prayer to God, our loving, caring Parent, and felt peaceful enough to enjoy the lunchtime companionship.

In 2021, my husband and I built a second-story addition to our house to add a new office for my practice of Christian Science healing. The roofers were adding the last tiles to the roof when one of the workers came running for me, gasping that his coworker had just fallen from the top of the roof and landed on his back on the concrete pavers below.

“ Every trial of our faith in God makes us stronger. The more difficult seems the material condition to be overcome by Spirit, the stronger should be our faith and the purer our love” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.