Testimonies of Healing
About two years ago I registered for a symposium on spirituality and health care, an event intended for health-care administrators, hospital chaplains, social workers, and others in the health-care community, but open to anyone interested in the issues. I wanted to be better informed, to see how these issues were now perceived and pursued in our culture, and to think about them in the light of my own study of Christian Science.
I first learned of Christian Science about fifteen years ago. There were, however, many wrestlings in my own thought before I began to embrace this teaching for myself.
Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe" ( John 4:48 ). This is what Christ Jesus told the nobleman who asked him to come and heal his son.
I would not be alive today without the blessings of Christian Science. The evidence at the time of my birth indicated that I was stillborn.
About a year ago, I had a healing of a long-standing internal difficulty. This trouble had been going on for a number of years.
My husband was not a Christian Scientist when we married, though I was. I wanted our children to attend the Christian Science Sunday School, where they would learn the richness of the Bible and of man's spiritual relation to God.
When I was a new student of Christian Science, I had an experience that showed me unmistakably how this Science affects our human condition by bringing about a change of thought. I had applied to several colleges, including one that I especially wanted to go to, which was for students of Christian Science.
In the summer of 1994 I had a serious fall from my bicycle that rendered me briefly unconscious. I was wearing a bicycle helmet, and I came to with my husband watching over me.
I was a few weeks into a new teaching post when I lost movement in my left arm, the arm I use to write with. On the face of it, the picture was bleak.
For many Christians, baptism is a ceremonial act celebrating admission to the Christian community. It can also signify that one has turned from a former way of life to follow Christ Jesus' teachings.