Testimonies of Healing

One Friday I was ill with an abscessed tooth. I called a Christian Science practitioner, who steadfastly supported me through prayer.

My mother came into Christian Science when I was a teen-ager. At the time, I was suffering from hay fever.

I was introduced to Christian Science by a devoted student of this religion when it seemed there was no place to go: there were problems in my marriage, and my infant son was quite ill. Yet here was this lovely person telling me that God loved me—loved everyone, including what appeared to be a sick child.

As a specialist in architectural renderings, I was once asked to prepare a set of perspective drawings of the Olympic Village to submit to the International Committee in Athens—and given just two weeks in which to do it. Reckoning from a human standpoint, this meant working twice as fast as I normally did.

When I realized that our second baby was expected, I began a diligent study to better understand God's omnipotent law of good. Our first child had been born by Caesarean section, but I felt deeply that a normal second delivery was possible.

When I was in high school, my youngest sister had a healing that deeply impressed me and years later continues to bring inspiration. It showed me that the teachings of Christian Science have lost none of their tremendous healing efficacy.

Twenty years ago, although I felt gifted with beauty, intelligence, talent, and success, as well as association with important persons in culture and art (I was myself a painter, writer, and journalist),I was a sad, unhappy creature. Laboring under the religious tradition of my family, I had accepted with bitterness the notion that because I had so much, I must pay a high price.

When I was sixteen, I fell on my back and injured my spine. Walking was painful and difficult after the accident, so my mother took me to a physician.

Several years ago I felt very lonely, in desperate need of friendship. Suddenly one day I was struck by this passage from Science and Health by Mrs.

For fifteen years I longed to share instances of healing during weekly testimony meetings in our branch Church of Christ, Scientist, but found it practically impossible to do so. I would give a brief expression of gratitude at the Thanksgiving Day service but that was about the extent of it.