Testimonies of Healing

One afternoon about two years ago, I felt a pain in my breast. At first, I didn't think too much about it.

In the fall of 2001 I became interested in purchasing an established business from someone who planned to retire. Although I was employed at the time and not specifically looking to make a change, the move looked like a great opportunity.

My husband's company softball team was in the middle of a practice game. Bases were loaded, and they had run out of batters.

I remember the very first Christian Science service I attended, one Sunday morning many years ago. I thought the Readers lived in the church and were not allowed to lead normal lives or ever leave the building.

I always like doing things with my two sons, and sledding is no exception. We enjoy gliding down the hill on our sleds and tubes on a crisp, cold day; flying down the slope alone, or holding hands tightly to form a chain.

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.