Testimonies of Healing
Several months after I thought I had completed menopause, I began to experience significant sweating all over my body, along with periods of extreme heat and an inability to focus on my surroundings. These symptoms alarmed me, especially because I didn't know what was going on.
About five years ago, while getting ready to do my shopping, I stepped out of my truck and my hip went out of place. I was startled, and it was very painful.
When I Went away to college, I joined a fraternity that had frequent beer-drinking parties. I started drinking because it seemed to be a part of college fraternity life, even though I'd learned in Christian Science Sunday School that I could be happy without drinking.
I was driving to Los Angeles on Highway 5—a narrow, two-lane strip of freeway—when I saw the front of a long truck edging into my lane. I realized that the truck's tail end was about to sideswipe my car.
In early 2000, while on business trips, I began using my laptop computer to access pornographic websites in secret. I never paid any money, but I knew I was violating the Seventh Commandment by committing adultery in my heart (see Ex.
An article entitled "Never give up," published in the April 2001 issue of the Herald, helped me a great deal when I had an illness for a long time. As I continued to study Christian Science, never giving up and trusting that God would heal me, I was not only healed of the sickness but I also gained a new conviction that I can live each day in Spirit.
Healing came as the author learned to live each day in line with the Sermon on the Mount.
During my first month in law school, I woke up one morning to find a terrible rash covering my body. It was very difficult to perform even the most basic daily functions, including walking around.
When our son was about three years old, he had a very high fever and was so miserable that he was crying constantly. My husband was taking care of our baby daughter and also praying for our son while I stayed in the room with the little boy.
Last summer , I traveled to Milan, Italy, to spend a month doing research. Two days after I arrived, I stopped to purchase a phone card at a newspaper kiosk.