Testimonies of Healing

I arrived at a federal women's prison on April 23, 1998. I immediately made a new Christian friend, who invited me to a Christian Science service.

A few years ago i was seriously injured in an automobile accident. While still at the scene I found myself unable to fully comprehend what was going on or where I was.

In early November of 1996, I was elected First Reader at my branch Church of Christ, Scientist. A month or so earlier, however, I had begun to experience stiffening in my knee joints.

I experienced healing through faith even before I came into a fuller understanding of God's law in Christian Science, and I feel compelled to record the events that led me to this Science. When I was yet a babe of a year and a half, I was stricken with infantile paralysis (now called polio).

I was helping my wife with some cleanup work in our garden. We have a path in the garden made of concrete paving blocks that are half buried in the ground, but stick up about one inch above the ground.

When our first son was born, the doctor kindly told me to hold on to the side of the bed and grip it when the pain got difficult. But the birth took place so quickly that I never even gripped the bed.

On a cross-country harrier race of two laps, we had to cross a barbed wire fence over which a sack had been placed. On the first lap I cleared the fence, but the second time my leg lightly scraped a barb on the top wire.

While my wife and I were flying from California to London, our aircraft encountered significant turbulence. We belted ourselves firmly in our seats, but the situation was frightening.

I would like to give gratitude for a physical healing I experienced recently. Early one morning, as I was studying the weekly Bible Lesson (found in the Christian Science Quarterly ), I experienced what appeared to be a mild heart attack.

One Sunday I took my dog for a walk. It was great to watch her run at top speed and have so much freedom.