Testimonies of Healing
SEVERAL YEARS AGO while I was traveling in Greece, I came down with a fever one morning. My thoughts had been stirred up with some difficulties I was having with my traveling companions and the logistics of the trip.
A FEW YEARS AGO I experienced bouts of severe abdominal pain that lasted for some 15 or 20 minutes each time. Incapacitated by the pain, I would lie down and silently affirm spiritual truths I had learned through my years as a student of Christian Science.
THE OPENING STATEMENT from Science and Health, "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings" ( p. vii ), has long been a favorite reminder that trusting God brings only goodness into our lives.
SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, I brought home a large, explosively athletic dog from an animal shelter—she was about a year and a half old, part Boxer, part Great Dane, as far as we could tell. As she took off after a cat in the yard, the rope attached to her that I held in my hand sharply and severely twisted my fingers.
I HAD ALWAYS THOUGHT of myself as a pretty happy person. I think that's how most other people saw me, too.
SEVERAL YEARS AGO my wife and I were driving home after visiting one of our daughters in another state about 1,000 miles away. On the third day of the return trip, I began to experience extreme pain in my back and abdominal area.
The testifier experienced healing when her awakened thought rose above the invalid suggestions of exhaustion and sickness.
ONE AFTERNOON when I was a teenager, my sister and I were having fun chasing each other around the house. We both went to playfully kick at each other, when our feet collided and I heard my toe snap.
WHEN I WAS 11 YEARS OLD, my grandfather molested me. As a naive kid, I didn't even know what the word sex meant, and I tended to be obedient to and respectful of my elders.
THE ABILITY of Christian Science treatment to heal quickly and completely was proven to me early on in my study and practice of Christian Science a number of years ago. I had been studying Christian Science for only about five months when, the day before Christmas Eve, our two-and-a-half-year-old son became sick with a fever and couldn't move from the waist down.