Testimonies of Healing

As a young teenager, I found that study of the weekly Bible Lessons in the Christian Science Quarterly and attendance at a Christian Science Sunday School were essential to me in establishing a strong spiritual foundation. The following healing brought to light the power and truth of the opening sentence of the chapter "Prayer" in Science and Health by Mrs.

My parents came into Christian Science during the early twenties after my father had been told by several doctors that he would never walk again. With prayerful treatment from a Christian Science practitioner, he had a quick and permanent healing.

I was raised in a Christian Scientist family, but Christian Science first became my own choice of the way I wanted to live when I was a teenager. Later, as an adult with a family of my own, I relied on Christian Science exclusively for healing for myself and our two daughters.

My most precious gifts have been the love of God and the awareness of Him that my parents first nurtured in me and that my study of Christian Science has more fully unfolded. I began to study Christian Science as a young woman.

Two years ago I suddenly developed considerable pain in my abdomen. I had been raised in Christian Science and had found it helpful throughout my life, but I was not at that time a practicing Christian Scientist.

I'd like to tell you of a couple of experiences in my daily life as an airline stewardess. Refusing to accept human prediction and turning to God instead have brought protection, freedom, and healing.

A number of years ago, when our daughter was a young child, frequent and painful urination was diagnosed as a symptom of a severe kidney disease. The treatment prescribed happened to be quite painful, and it took both my husband and me to get our daughter to the doctor's office.

About twenty years ago I had two healings of bone injuries during a period when I was traveling frequently as a management consultant for a national agency. I've had quick healings of physical difficulties since becoming a student of Christian Science almost fifty years ago, but these two injuries took longer to heal.

Christian Science has been so helpful to me in all areas of my life. As a child, I was troubled with a skin condition called eczema.

In 1953, when I was living in Kenya, I became very ill with malaria and then also contracted typhoid. After weeks of fever and loss of consciousness, I was not expected to survive.