Testimonies of Healing

DUE TO AN INFECTION in my kidneys some time ago, I suffered from sores in my mouth and urinated with great difficulty. I called a Christian Science practitioner to pray with me, and as she was speaking I felt something wonderful operating within me.

SOME YEARS AGO, I was in a traffic accident and received serious injuries, including a fractured spinal column and a serious blow to the head. In consequence, I was immobilized with a cast on my chest and back for 30 days.

THIS PAST WINTER, an accumulation of physical problems suddenly became overwhelming. I called a Christian Science practitioner for prayerful support and told him that I felt like Job in the Bible—that everything was crashing down on me, and the only good thing I could say was that I knew that Job had overcome his severe trials through a clearer understanding of his relationship to God.

KNOWING THAT GOD is the invariable divine Principle of all things and maintains my health has given me a firm basis to begin proving this truth in my life. For just one example, one night I woke up feeling totally unsettled.

ONE AFTERNOON AFTER my husband and I had lunch together on our veranda, I tossed a couple of items into our recycle container located on a small landing between two floors. In a blurry instant, I fell from the landing and tumbled down a flight of uncarpeted wooden stairs—with my head leading the way—to the first floor.

ONE MORNING in October of 2005, I was working in our backyard before getting ready to travel to a Parents' Weekend at my son's college. Later that day, during my flight, I began to experience dizziness and headaches, and noticed that one of my feet was quite swollen.

IT WAS A spring day when I set out in my ten-foot dinghy from Guemes Island to cross Bellingham Channel in Washington State. I was headed for Sinclair Island, where our family has a summer cabin, to plant a small tree.

EVER SINCE I was a young adult, the idea of being in an enclosed space has brought me indescribable attacks of fear. Many times, rather than go into an elevator, I would take the stairs.

YEARS AGO, I had to have a physical exam for a job. The examining physician detected two lumps in my right breast.

ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO, I suddenly experienced overall weakness and a debilitating pain. Although the pain was localized in my arm, the pain was severe enough that it made movement of any kind very difficult, and my arm was useless.