Testimonies of Healing

WHEN OUR CHILDREN were growing up, we lived on a farm. We successfully practiced Christian Science to heal all our problems, even those of our animals.

JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT, and there I was lying in the middle of the floor. I had crawled out of bed in great physical distress and did not want to get up.

FOR MANY YEARS, I've felt the safety and support that come from the desire to be, as the Bible says, "about my Father's business," and this has certainly included involvement in church activities. A recent incident vividly brought this fact home to me.

MANY YEARS AGO, not long after college, I had a healing that represented a milestone in my spiritual growth. My husband and I were given the opportunity to work overseas.

SEVERAL YEARS AGO I felt bombarded by ads and TV programs about widespread obesity in the United States. They said that obesity was the result of a self-indulgent search for "the good life," or material satisfaction.

I HADN'T HAD NEW GLASSES for three years or more, so last April I went to get my eyes examined by a well-established ophthalmologist. After the exam, he told me that I had cataracts in both eyes.

IN 2006, I woke on the first morning of a weeklong business trip to Japan in great pain with a severely swollen leg. I had been raised in Christian Science, but had stopped attending church about 15 years earlier.

SEVERAL YEARS AGO I had the opportunity to study abroad in a developing country. While there, both of my eyes became quite red and inflamed.

I HAD BEEN MARRIED for about three years when I consulted a gynecologist because I was experiencing very irregular menstrual cycles. She prescribed fertility pills to restore normalcy and mentioned to my husband and me that with these pills I could easily become pregnant.

The author recognizes himself as God’s spiritual idea, without any blemish or disease.