Testimonies of Healing

" The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God,—a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love" ( Science and Health , p. 1 ).

For many years I feared what might become of me if my parents or husband ever passed away. I was so dependent on them for everything.

It happened on a Sunday in December, on my way to church. I felt calm and poised, and was looking forward to conducting the church service.

When we were fairly new students of Christian Science, one of our little boys severely injured his finger—the tip of it was severed by a paper cutter at school. Our son was brought home, and when I saw him, for a moment I didn't know what to do —to take him to our former doctor or to call a Christian Science practitioner for treatment through prayer.

I called a Christian Science practitioner and said, "I am basically a very happy person, but the pressures of business and church work with which my husband is involved make him a heavily burdened individual. If only he would lighten up, then I would be completely happy and life would go along easily.

Two years ago, I found my department was completely eliminated, even though we had been performing a unique function for twelve years that made us, we thought, indispensable. I was told that I was to be part of a reduction in force, in six weeks.

My testimony of gratitude for Christian Science is long overdue. In raising a family of three, we witnessed many healings.

I kept a list of all the healings I had last year. I was healed of an irritated bump on my cheek, a prolonged constant pain in my arm, a migraine headache, menstrual cramps, a canker sore, influenza, laryngitis, and a spreading, itching rash.

In the course of my work, I was driving down a cut line in the bush when a sapling tree caught the side mirror of the truck and came through the open window, striking me on the side of the neck and forcing me to the opposite side of the cab. I was able to free myself and continued to work that day, but as I worked my neck became very stiff and a painful headache developed.

  From infancy I had problems with my health. I was nervous, depressed, and fearful of all kinds of ailments.