Testimonies of Healing

It is with great joy that I share the following healing. The seeds of truth that ultimately brought about this wonderful change were sown during my final year as a pupil in the Christian Science Sunday School.

The healing our daughter has related took place over a number of years. The lessons we learned during that time have been some of the most fruitful of our lives Our entire family—Beverlee, her two brothers, my wife, and I—would, on occasion, join together in prayer.

My heart overflows in praise to God. Each year I learn more of His goodness and allness through demonstrating what I understand of the inspired Word of the Bible and the teachings of Christian Science.

As a boy I regularly attended the Christian Science Sunday School, but for many years I did not practice what I had learned there. Much later, as a man, I woke suddenly one night to hear the "still small voice" of Truth shouting to me that I must stop drinking.

As a new student of Christian Science, I turned to this teaching in an extremity, at a time when I could no longer see a reason to live. And through Christian Science I learned that this extremity was not to be the end of my life, but instead marked a beginning.

I attended a Christian Science Sunday School from age four to twenty and also joined The Mother Church. But during and after college I found myself drifting away from this teaching.

Some years ago while at work, and in a great hurry at the time, I caught my fingers in the door of a heavy safe. With my free hand I managed to open the door, but when I looked at the other hand, I knew that I had to do something without delay.

Christian Science came into my life at a time of need. It was an answer to prayer, to my deep yearning to know God better.

The encouragement I've received from reading the inspiring accounts of healings in the Christian Science periodicals impels me to add my own. As I count my blessings, heading the list is the fact that my parents were receptive when an American business acquaintance lovingly introduced them to Christian Science and helped them obtain a copy of the textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy (in German) while they were living in Switzerland.

One night while driving home alone, I noticed a vehicle following me that was moving erratically. As it was late, my errand to buy water from a machine in a nearby parking lot seemed unwise.