Testimonies of Healing

"DO YOU FEEL DOMINATED?" she asked. There it was—the raw truth, a fact I'd never shared with anyone—and she somehow knew it! "Yes," I answered with hesitation, in awe of her spiritual insight.

I AWAKENED one Sunday morning with all the symptoms of a heavy head cold. The last thing I wanted to do was get out of bed, let alone get dressed for church.

MY FIRST HEALING in Christian Science came early. I was born feet first with badly damaged feet.

YEARS AGO, at 12 or 13, I was involved in many activities at school and excelled in sports and academics. Everything seemed to be going very well.

I USED TO BE less a human being and more a "human doing. " I always had to be doing something.

I LOVE TO JOG. It gives me the opportunity to experience the outdoors — the sun, sky, wind — and to see nature around me.

ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO while watering my garden and enjoying the sounds of birds settling in for the evening, I inadvertently stepped backwards off a retaining wall. I fell about seven feet, landing on my back on a sloping concrete path, entangling my legs in a wooden gate.

I FEEL LIKE MY LIFE began last summer. Let me explain.

One Time while studying Jesus' words "I am the light of the world" ( John 8:12 ), I experienced such spiritual illumination that I felt I glimpsed how Jesus could heal ten lepers at once (see Luke 17:12-19). This flash of spiritual insight showed me something of our spiritual reality and how we can heal and be healed quickly through Christian Science treatment.

A Few Months Ago, I landed awkwardly on the basketball court after shooting a basket. I felt immense pain on the underside of my knee and was afraid that I had torn some ligaments, which is pretty common in sports today.