Testimonies of Healing

I have so much to be grateful for that I cannot put off writing a testimony any longer. When my older son was about five years old, he became covered with insect bites during a short camping trip.

I have been a Christian Scientist all my life and have loved it every step of the way. During my childhood and teens I had many convincing healings—some with the prayerful help of a Christian Science practitioner and several through my own spiritual treatment alone.

During my growing-up years, God was presented as one who punishes and sends to hell those who come short of God's requirements. Although I loved the Bible and learned the stories of Moses, David, the prophets, and Christ Jesus and the disciples, there was much I didn't understand about the Scriptures.

Christian Science has been an anchor in the lives of members of my family for five generations. It began with my two grandmothers before the end of the last century, and it is continuing today in the lives of my grandsons.

Before my wife and I learned of Christian Science, our young son contracted pneumonia. A doctor treated him.

I was raised in a non-Christian religion. When I was a teen-ager I stopped doing my prayers, however, because I did not understand the sentences I had had to learn by heart in those prayers.

Words are not adequate to express my deep gratitude for Christian Science and for the blessings and healings I have experienced. I began to study this Science because a friend invited me to attend the services of a group of Christian Scientists who were meeting informally in central Java.

It is difficult at times to say how grateful we really are, but it is time for me to do so. Like many Christian Scientist parents, I am most grateful for healings of our children.

I am very grateful for the many avenues through which the truths of Christian Science come to bless us. I particularly appreciate the healing truths shared with us in the videotape of the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church for 1986.

Testimonies of healing given at Wednesday evening testimony meetings and those published in the periodicals have been a great help and source of inspiration to me for many years. With this in mind, I wish to share some healings I have had through the study and application of Christian Science.