Testimonies of Healing

WHEN MY HUSBAND AND I were searching for an answer to a pressing financial problem, I turned wholeheartedly to God in prayer. The solution came in a way I never could have outlined: in a box of kites.

LAST MAY as I was giving a recorder lesson to my eight- and nine-year-old music students, one of them asked, "What's that on your thumb?" I had struggled with a wart on this thumb for about a year, and the thickened skin around it caused me a great deal of discomfort. At that time, I had a busy schedule teaching music full-time at two elementary schools in Vancouver.

AFTER THE BIRTH of my first child, I found motherhood to be overwhelming. The labor and delivery were longer and harder than I had expected.

SEVERAL YEARS AGO, a lump formed on my shoulder blade that gradually grew in size and became discolored. Eventually, it became prone to bleeding if I bumped it, so I began to bandage it on a regular basis.

WHEN I WAS TEN YEARS OLD and an epileptic, my mother took me to three of the best specialists available at the time in London. The longest any of them gave me to live was two years, because they said my heart had been badly affected by the epilepsy.

MANY YEARS AGO, while living in Europe, I became very ill with influenza the same day I was to be a guest at a New Year's Eve party. By midafternoon, when there had been no improvement, I called a friend from a Christian Science Society I attended to ask for metaphysical support.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALING has been practiced in my family for six generations. I could recount healing after healing, and each has its own special place in my spiritual growth.

WHEN I FIRST NOTICED a hard lump in my pelvic area, it was a bit of a shock. But I also felt a profound sense of gratitude that I was a Christian Scientist.

SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, I was riding my motorbike with another man on the back as a passenger when we collided with a woman who was running across the street. Though the woman and my passenger were not injured, I struck my face on the pavement and lost consciousness.

AFTER SEVERAL YEARS OF marriage, my husband and I had been unable to have children. Jesus' words, "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not," ( Mark 10:14 ) inspired us to include all the world's children in our prayers as we yearned to have a family of our own.