Testimonies of Healing

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.

People sometimes wonder how children are given proper care in the homes of Christian Scientists. I grew up in such a home and have raised four children of my own in accord with its teachings.

My father's mother turned to Christian Science at a time of family tragedy and physical need. She was healed and became one of the first students of Science in the Wyoming area.

In 1949, when I was a young mother of three, we moved to a farming community. The nearest Christian Science church was one hundred miles away.

I have been a student of Christian Science for more than fifty years and have had many convincing proofs of its efficacy when it has been understood and rightly applied. When Science was first presented to me, I gladly accepted it because it was what I had been seeking for many years.

In my over twenty years as a college and university student, faculty member, and now college president, I have been able to conquer many apparently insurmountable obstacles through the application of the teachings of Christ Jesus as seen in the light of Christian Science. This testimony is written to express my gratitude for these proofs and the accompanying spiritual growth as well as to encourage others in their efforts to better their education.

I have had many healings through an understanding of God. Some problems have been more challenging to overcome, but I have always been blessed by relying firmly on spiritual truth until thought has been enlightened and the bodily condition has yielded as a natural result.