Testimonies of Healing

In 2021, my husband and I built a second-story addition to our house to add a new office for my practice of Christian Science healing. The roofers were adding the last tiles to the roof when one of the workers came running for me, gasping that his coworker had just fallen from the top of the roof and landed on his back on the concrete pavers below.

In 1982 I got a job with the Uruguay branch of SOS Children’s Villages, a nongovernmental organization dedicated to the care of orphaned and abandoned children around the world. While working there I had my first healing in Christian Science.

“ Every trial of our faith in God makes us stronger. The more difficult seems the material condition to be overcome by Spirit, the stronger should be our faith and the purer our love” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.

In the fall of 2022 , I realized I had many healings and experiences practicing Christian Science for which I had never expressed gratitude. I began to write articles for the Christian Science periodicals that included these experiences.

I had just completed Primary class instruction in Christian Science, a two-week course that helped me develop a deeper understanding of the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and learn how to heal through prayer. Seeing more clearly that God is Truth and the source of true thought really challenged me to think differently.

When I was in my early teens, a family member cautioned me not to talk too much because, as he put it, no one cared to hear what I had to say. Because I trusted this individual, I heeded that incorrect advice, which resulted in my being very quiet and shy well into adulthood.

As a lifelong Christian Scientist, I have had many wonderful physical healings through the application of the truths taught in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. One particular example of healing has long served as a source of inspiration for me.

One day while enjoying an afternoon ride, my horse slipped off a low footbridge and we both fell into the mucky streambed. Before I could get to my feet, the horse stepped on my lower leg to climb back up onto the bridge.

Growing up in a household with two devoted Christian Scientists, I was grateful for my parents’ example of commitment to Christian Science and demonstration of it, but I hadn’t really made it my own. I regularly attended church and read the weekly Bible Lesson from the Christian Science Quarterly, but because I hadn’t had any significant challenges, I more or less went along and simply hoped that I would know enough to address a big problem if one came along.

When I was in my twenties, a longtime church member asked when I was going to take Christian Science Primary class instruction. I replied that I hadn’t thought of it.