Testimonies of Healing

When a small child just starting kindergarten, I was vaccinated against my mother's wishes. I became very ill, unable to retain food, and extremely lethargic.

My whole life always seemed to be defined by the ups and downs of matters of the heart. Affections and sentiments played a great role, motivating me and my thoughts.

I am Kari's father. It was with great joy that I witnessed the healing that our daughter experienced.

One weeknight while I was in junior high, I was fooling around with my dad. I accidentally hit my head on the corner of the wall, and fell to the floor.

Some years ago I was working in public education for a group of voluntary organizations. One day I found myself facing a moral dilemma: either continue working in support of decisions I felt were wrong, or uphold a deeply held conviction and quit my job.

Late one evening, at a time when yardwork and fencing was being done to build a safe area for my newly acquired puppy, I went out the patio door to walk her. Tripping over a rake that had been left by workers, I twisted my left ankle and landed on my right knee.

Even though I attended a Christian Science Sunday School through my high-school years, I began to drift away from what I had learned there and began to follow many intellectual trends of the time. I became mixed up, confused, and rebellious toward family and society I also began drinking, smoking, and stealing things from local stores; my morals went downhill.

One day I was doing spring-cleaning and had finally reached the last room yet undone. Since I could not reach the very top of the doorframe I was washing, I stood on the edge of an armchair instead of taking the time to get a ladder.

In November 1976 I first learned of Christian Science. When I got home I said, "Today I learned something that always was; I just didn't know that it existed.

I feel blessed to be a student of the Science of Christianity. I respect the fact that Mrs.