Testimonies of Healing

With growing gratitude I forward to you my first written testimony in nearly three decades of Christian Science study. Back ailments, headaches, stomach disorders, and relationships are among the numerous problems that have been healed in my study and application of this glorious truth, for which I am most thankful.

How important it was for me to learn about Christian Science! I am grateful to God, to Christ Jesus, and to the person who led me to find this religion. I was a firm believer in God at that time, and was going through great difficulties in connection with my health.

I wish to express my gratitude for the spiritual understanding and healings that have resulted from fifty years of studying the Science of Christianity. One of the most important lessons I've learned is that one must persist regardless of the roadblocks that appear to interfere with healing.

The spring of 1978 found my wife and me teaching English at a small engineering college in Iran. The only hint at that time of the approaching revolution in that country was that our students were becoming rather obstreperous in the classroom and antagonistic to the school administration.

Again and again in my study of Christian Science, and my earnest prayers, I affirm anew that chance cannot interfere with God's eternal dominion and, therefore, is not an element of my life. By consistently realizing this fact I have come to understand the way the Bible describes His presence.

After losing my first child, I was told by a leading doctor that I would lose the second if I didn't stay in bed during the pregnancy. In my sorrow over the loss of the first child, and my fear of losing the second, I was led to ask a Christian Science practitioner for treatment.

At the end of World War II, after moving the family to a distant state, my husband abandoned me and our four children. I am so grateful for the practical application of Christian Science that enabled me to be a successful single parent.

When my son, Chris, was about ten years old, his favorite uncle asked him to be in his wedding ceremony as a candle boy. He was very excited about this and happily accepted the invitation.

Have you ever thought, "Does Christian Science really heal? Can I be healed?" I suffered from chronic head pain for over fifty years, and wondered if I had the spiritual understanding to find healing. The book of John tells us about a pool at Jerusalem called Bethesda, where there lay "a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

In raising two children, my husband and I have relied entirely on Christian Science treatment to solve various problems that have come up, including deep wounds, hearing difficulties, nervous breakdown, broken arms, automobile accidents, stomach troubles, migraine headaches, and lack of supply. I have also experienced harmonious childbirth and the healing of strained family relationships.