Testimonies of Healing
Knowing how much God loves us and understanding Him better gives us a lot of unfoldment and a new grasp of spirituality. I found this out when I started applying divine Science in all my doings as the result of a lifelong search for a more complete understanding of the Supreme Being.
For a number of years I was a real estate broker and loan officer. On one particular transaction, the clients came to me for help in obtaining pre-approval on a loan.
How grateful I am for God's absolute law of goodness and for the fact that "the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword" ( Heb. 4:12 ).
As far back as I can remember as a child, I felt a closeness to God. If I felt ill, I refused medicine, although I had no knowledge of Christian Science.
Reading other people's testimonies has always been so inspiring to me, and now I would like to add my own. Being born into a loving family of Christian Scientists, I learned by heart many helpful passages from the Bible, Science and Health, and the Christian Science Hymnal that give assurances of God's care for us all.
" Marvellous are thy works ; and that my soul knoweth right well.
One evening after supper my husband announced that it was going to be necessary for him to leave home. This came as quite a shock to me.
I have been a student of Christian Science since I learned about it through reading the Christian Science Sentinel in eighth grade. After receiving permission from my mother to attend the Christian Science Sunday School and to get the book I had read about, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, I studied it along with the Bible.
I opened The New York Times on a Sunday morning last summer and was astonished to read the headline announcing the death of Princess Diana. I felt gripped with sadness and despair.
How comforting it is to have a practical religion that is an integral part of daily life. I want to express my gratitude for Christian Science; for the understanding of God, and of man as His idea; and for the confidence, inspired by this religion, that all that is real is good, Godlike.