Testimonies of Healing
It has been such a joy to witness God's healing power through the practice of Christian Science. Four generations of our family have experienced this healing power through scientific prayer and trust in God's love and ever-governing law.
Before our first son was born I made arrangements to have the delivery at home with the attendance of a qualified midwife. When the time came, however, I seemed unable to forward the birth.
While helping a friend move a heavy picnic table, I injured my back. It was difficult to think clearly because of the excruciating pain, but my loving wife, a dedicated student of Christian Science, helped me pray.
Christian Science has been a blessing to me throughout my life. I am especially grateful for having been raised in a family where, because of my mother's dedication to Science, it was the normal practice to turn to God for help whenever a problem arose.
I will always be grateful to the friend who sent me issues of the Christian Science Sentinel one winter. I enjoyed reading them and thought Christian Science a beautiful teaching but not something I could practice in my own life.
I was traveling with my backpack and tent in another country, doing some scientific research, when I experienced what I believed was a hernial condition in my leg. It grew worse rapidly until it was nearly impossible to walk even short distances without severe pain.
While reading the Bible one day, this verse from Psalms caught my attention: "At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments. " I wondered why the Psalmist preferred midnight for thanksgiving.
I first began to attend services in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, with my husband. He was attracted to the spiritual qualities of compassion and intelligence that he felt were expressed by the members there.
On one Christmas Eve many years ago, while visiting relatives in another state, I heard a discussion about a baby that was dying. The previous year its baby brother, displaying the same symptoms, had died after ten days, cause unknown.
Christian Science heals. At the age of fifteen I became ill with tuberculosis.