Testimonies of Healing
At one time thirty years ago I hit the side of my head on a sharp corner of a kitchen cabinet. In a short while a small lump appeared.
As a child I had many healings through Christian Science. I will always be thankful for my parents' example of Christly living, and for being able to attend a Christian Science Sunday School.
When I was a young man, many years before I knew anything about Christian Science, I was told that I had a very weak right eye. When I closed the left eye, the printed page was just a blur.
Some time ago I developed an intense, irrational fear that one of our children would pass on. This aggressive suggestion plagued me constantly, along with the temptation to resort to suicide.
In early July 1973, my car was hit and totally wrecked by another car. I woke some time later in the emergency ward of a hospital.
As a class-taught Christian Scientist myself, with both a grandmother and a mother who were active Christian Science practitioners, I felt there was simply no alternative but to delve deeper into the logical teaching of this Science when my little world appeared to crash in around me. Prior to this, my husband and I had been designing and working very hard to build our "dream" house.
One morning while I was a college student, I woke with intense pain in one ear. I phoned a Christian Science practitioner, who agreed to help me.
During my childhood Christian Science was a steadying influence—maintaining good health, contentment in our large family, and, best of all, companionship with Scientists whose lives were devoted to serving this healing Cause through their local branch Church of Christ, Scientist. More than I realized at that time, these members' consistent, humble devotion to God and their living the teachings of Science in our community deeply affected my perspective on spiritual commitment.
Shortly after a household move I began to feel extreme pain and stiffness in my lower back. When the condition worsened I grew fearful, and the pressure to do something about it mounted.
Christian Science has been my "refuge and fortress" for more than seventy years. My mother was healed of a debilitating illness when I was four years old.