
Testimonies of Healing
I was given the opportunity to attend a Christian Science Sunday School when I was about seven years of age. At fourteen, I was to experience a great change in my life.
I found myself feeling uncertain and stymied in my employment, and I would like to relate with much gratitude how the teachings of Christian Science helped me to find a fully satisfying employment situation. Some years ago, I felt that I had advanced as far as I could in the work I was then doing as part of a large corporation.
During my early apprenticeship in Christian Science, I had this revelation: if I react to the appearance of evil in any way, then I admit its reality, I make it real. What is needed, regardless of circumstance, is a Christianly scientific response.
" Never born and never dying, it were impossible for man, under the government of God in eternal Science, to fall from his high estate" ( Science and Health , p. 258 ).
Christian Science has been my mainstay since I was a young teenager. It has guided me, protected me, healed me, and brought me joy more times than I can number.
Last fall our church held an election for Readers to conduct the services. I have withdrawn from being considered in the past, citing a busy schedule as a reason for not being able to do the job.
Several years ago I experienced a healing for which I have been deeply grateful ever since. One day while at work, I came down with all the symptoms of very severe flu.
During Easter vacation from school last year my husband and I took our toddler to the playground for the first time that spring. She was having a delightful time until a false step left her flat on her face on the blacktop.
I wish to tell about my very first healing in Christian Science. As a young girl I was very interested in reading about various religions, so I had bought a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
Praise has been welling from the bottom of my heart for a long time. In a family devoted to Christian Science, I loved to hear my grandmother sing Mrs.