Testimonies of Healing
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.
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.