Testimonies of Healing
My first exposure to Christian Science came when I was in college and a friend, who is a Christian Scientist, invited me to go with her to the Sunday School. In retrospect, I don't know why I agreed to go, because I hadn't much use for religion at the time.
I am very grateful to have been raised in Christian Science and to have depended on it all my life for healing. A few years ago, I was at work on the 3 to 11 p.
Forty years ago the world was a dark, unfriendly, and cruel place. At least that was my view of it.
What a great blessing it is that in founding Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy made provision for our daily study of the Bible together with her book Science and Health.
The testimonies appearing in the various Christian Science periodicals have inspired me continuously since my introduction to Christian Science in 1969. At that time a friend gave me a copy of Science and Health by Mrs.
My entire life has been blessed by a love and appreciation of Christian Science. My mother embraced Science, as had her mother before her.
Christian Science was introduced to our family over fifty years ago when a neighbor saw our need and invited my parents to attend a Christian Science lecture. This was a high point in our lives, as my father was completely healed of alcoholism and chronic appendicitis at that lecture.
About six years ago, while I was supervising some students on a particularly difficult term-paper assignment, I began suffering severe back pains. I was unable to bend over without bracing myself, thus making it very difficult for me to carry out my domestic and professional responsibilities.
In the past thirteen years, since my first testimony was published in the periodicals, there have been many trials, and at times it seemed there were backward steps. Yet out of these difficult experiences has come steady growth in my understanding of Christian Science and a purifying regeneration.
I was raised in Christian Science. As a child I attended a Christian Science Sunday School regularly and was receptive to the spiritual truths taught there.