Testimonies of Healing

One morning as I was preparing to leave for an appointment in town, I realized the electricity was off in our area and the garage door wouldn't open automatically. So I lifted the door myself.

As the project manager for my company, I traveled frequently to Europe. During one of these trips I had an upset stomach and was uncomfortable with back pain.

Some years ago, I awoke one morning to the frightening discovery that I could hardly walk or lift my hands above my head; all strength seemed to have left my hands and my body. I started to pray.

I was healed of a respiratory problem that I suffered with for 10 years. Although I never had the situation diagnosed, the symptoms indicated it was asthma.

From the time I was about three years old and all through my high-school years, I suffered from frequent sore throats and colds that led to chronic infectious bronchial asthma. This and other serious illnesses forced me to spend weeks in bed several times a year.

The lecture I'd just attended on the Science of Christianity had been so inspiring that I thought about it all the way home. When I got home and opened the door that leads to our backyard I saw one of our cairn terriers, Robbie, dive toward something on the brick walk.

A couple of years ago I noticed that a small growth had formed at the corner of one eye, under the skin. Initially I thought very little about it, but after several days it became more uncomfortable and pronounced.

My first Christian Science healing took place when I was 18 and serving in the Navy during the Second World war. As a young person growing up, I'd always had boils.

There was a story I would occasionally tell regarding how badly my mother treated me throughout my life. It was a story about verbal and emotional abuse, and I told it well.

One Saturday in late May during my senior year in high school, my hometown in Minnesota was struck by a ferocious wind storm. Quite suddenly the power went out, and as a bolt of lightning illuminated the backyard, my family and I were dismayed to see that our largest weeping willow had been ripped apart by the wind, and one of its branches had fallen straight across the power lines, knocking out our electricity.