Testimonies of Healing

The first healing I had in Christian Science occurred when I was five years old. I fell off the running board of a pickup truck loaded with green firewood and my legs were run over.

One Sunday, almost twenty years ago, while I was cleaning up after dinner, my foot began to swell and become painful and discolored. I had substituted as Second Reader in our branch church that day and was supposed to serve the following Sunday as well.

Through the study of Christian Science I am learning of God's power—even a slight understanding of which is sufficient to heal. The healings I've experienced have awakened in me a growing appreciation of God's love for man.

It is high time I gave my testimony of gratitude for blessings received through the study of Christian Science. I was brought up in a household where this Science was taught and practiced.

One day I was on the balance beam in gymnastics class doing a forward roll, when all of a sudden I fell off. My hand went between two mats, and I heard a big crack in my wrist.

A verse in our loved King James Bible urges us ( Ps. 66:8 ), "O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard.

Recently we had our kitchen completely renovated, along with installation of a new window. One Wednesday evening my husband was in the process of putting up new brackets for the curtains when he was called away.

Four years ago I was deeply depressed. I shed many tears, and although I had been raised in Christian Science, I felt I could find no way out of my apparent misfortune and disappointment.

Many years ago I met the young man whom I later married. At an early age he had been healed in Christian Science of tuberculosis after two doctors had told his mother he had just three weeks to live.

In Revelation 21:5 we find this divine message: "Behold, I make all things new.