Testimonies of Healing

Science and Health states, "Christ is the ideal Truth, that comes to heal sickness and sin through Christian Science, and attributes all power to God" ( p. 473 ).

After playing tennis one evening, I woke the next morning unable to raise my right arm. This surprised me because I had actively played tennis for years with practically no physical difficulties.

I was in a hotel room that was unpleasant—it was a drab room, with no color. A shade was off one window.

When I found Christian Science ten years ago, my health was in a precarious state. I suffered from high blood pressure and hemarthrosis of the knee, which prevented me from being able to go to work regularly.

A few years ago when our daughter was six, she choked on a piece of candy. She wasn't able to breathe.

My first healing as a Christian Scientist occurred while my application for membership in The Mother Church was in progress; I was also becoming a member of a branch church for the first time. I had struggled to break the tobacco habit.

Recently a practitioner asked me, "Have you submitted a testimony for the periodicals?" That alerted me to a responsibility in this regard, and I thought I would share a healing I had some time ago. At the time, my mother was living on the West Coast, and I on the East Coast.

Among my earliest memories are visits to a Christian Science Sunday School, where I learned that God is everywhere and that He is Love. I learned that man was created in God's image and likeness; and that evil, or devil, is unreal because unlike God, the only creator.

I thank God for having had Christian Science all my life. My mother was one of the first practitioners in West Texas.

I was in my thirties when I found Christian Science, and at that time had been smoking for twenty-six years. As my love and appreciation for Christian Science grew, I wanted very much to become a church member.