Testimonies of Healing

Last November, for no apparent reason, my shoulder became so painful that I couldn't move or touch it. Since my husband noticed I was having difficulty finding a comfortable position in which to sleep, he thought it would be best to take me to the hospital.

Last year on a trip to Paris, my husband and I both woke up one morning with the symptoms of food poisoning. My first concern was for my husband's two teenage brothers, who were traveling with us, because we had all eaten the same food the previous night.

I was preparing to do the dishes one evening in our cabin. We live in the backwoods of Vermont with no electricity or phone, and have to heat our water on the propane or wood stove.

I was helping my husband move a large dresser upstairs, when I felt an excruciating pain in my back. I put down the dresser and tried to stand up.

One day when my son Tommy was in the first grade, I received a phone call asking me to come to his school right away. A boy had thrown a rock while the children were on the playground, and it had hit Tommy in the eye.

I'm in 11th grade, and I've been a Christian Scientist my whole life. I've seen and heard about all of the wonderful ways it can heal anything.

When I was pregnant with my second child, I prayed to overcome fears of having to undergo another delivery by Caesarean section. I chose a doctor who at first encouraged me to expect a natural birth.

For a long time, I couldn't hear out of my left ear. But about three years ago, I decided I didn't need to just accept this difficulty anymore.

It was a stressful time. I was already working nine-hour days when we received a project that required a lot of additional overtime.

At the age of sixteen , I was diagnosed with epilepsy after losing consciousness one day on the way to my friend's house. After tests were done, I was told that I was subject to seizures, loss of consciousness, headaches, blanking out, lack of concentration.