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Testimonies of Healing
The following testimonies are offered with great love to those seeking encouragement and inspiration.
It began with pain in my arm, and then it began moving up to my shoulder and neck — quite frightening. When I called a local practitioner and friend, she felt she could not handle the case. She, herself, felt overwhelmed, but she recommended an independent Christian Science practitioner in Plainfield. I immediately called for help, and was met with love and confidence. I was given the 23rd Psalm to work with, with the reference to it in our textbook:
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for [LOVE] is with me; [LOVE’s] rod and [LOVE’S] staff they comfort me … Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house [the consciousness] of [LOVE] for ever.”
Shortly after I hung up the phone, very unexpectedly, I became acutely aware of a resentment I had been holding for many years of a family member. I wept and wondered how I could have not seen this before, having studied Christian Science for many years. As I wept, the pain in my body subsided. Several hours later, I was able to report to the practitioner that I was healed.
As the practitioner said, only God could have brought this about. I am so grateful for the work of the practitioner, and for the Christian Science that Mary Baker Eddy has given us.
R. R. - California
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My family and I were out of town, when my son came down with a very high fever. I immediately called a practitioner from Plainfield Church for help. I was told, “Mind regulates the condition of the stomach, bowels, and food, the temperature of children and of men, and matter does not.” (S&H) I hung up the phone and went to the child and found that the fever was gone, and he had fallen peacefully asleep.
The next morning when he awoke, I noticed a rash on his body and realized he had the measles. I called the practitioner again. She told me there is no spot where God is not. We were about to leave for home, and the practitioner said she would continue to pray and to call her when we got home. By the time we got home, just two hours later, the child was completely healed. There was not a mark on him.
I thank God for this healing, for Christian Science, and for the practitioner’s help.
S.W. - New Jersey
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When I awoke one morning recently, I felt very sick, weak, and frightened. As I read the Lesson Sermon and the symptoms didn’t lessen, I realized I needed to call a Plainfield practitioner for help, which I did. I became calmer right away, but didn’t seem to have any strength for the daily chores. The practitioner continued to pray for me, suggesting I work with this citation from the Lesson Sermon: “Body—the temple of the living God.” Special emphasis was placed on the word living, explaining it is that Life-presence which energizes us and is constantly providing us with the strength to do His work. Next day, while praying with this citation, suddenly everything changed! It was as though error had packed up its bags and, totally defeated, had slunk back to its nothingness, leaving me full of light, vigor, joy, and gratitude. I knew it was the practitioner’s work that had brought the healing.
What a blessing to be a member of the Plainfield Church where we can receive such healings and unselfed love, where the precious Science Jesus revealed and demonstrated is always properly applied to help us when we are in great need. I am in awe of the power of God and His love for His children. I rejoice that healings in Science are complete and permanent.
All my love and gratitude to all.
C. D. - New Hampshire
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Christian Science is so much more than a religion, it’s a way of life! How wonderful to know by keeping God right with us on a daily basis and turning to Him for our needs, He blesses us over and over!
I am a realtor in Arizona and every transaction is a blessing in itself! I have tried not to worry about my financial situation, but I have been anxious about being able to make enough money to meet my needs.
One transaction this year was a stressful one in that it dragged on seven or eight months and I was in despair of it even happening at all! I turned to a practitioner in this church for help and told her about how worried and discouraged I was. She reminded me God was in total control of this situation and He is my employer and to put this whole matter in His hands. Also, that my prayer should be an unselfish one — that the outcome of this transaction would be a blessing to all. God would be providing for the needs of everyone concerned. I felt so much better and was able to meet any obstacle that came up with a new-found calm and poise.
The closing date arrived, everyone was ready and it couldn’t have gone more smoothly. I am so grateful and thankful for Mrs. Eddy, who gave us this wonderful Science — a wonderful and practical way to live. I am joyful knowing that God is right here providing for us, providing us love, strength and understanding to meet all our needs. What a comfort to know we have this armor of protection.
V. E. - Arizona
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I am very grateful to have Christian Science in my life.
During the Christmas holiday, when our house was filled with out-of-town family members, our daughter related an experience of a friend whose young son cut himself with scissors and had a very long treatment and recovery under medical care. I asked her if she remembered when she was in the third grade, how she had cut herself while using some large shears.
When it happened, the pain was quickly met through prayer and the wound was bandaged. Each day I changed the bandage, but after several days passed and the wound did not seem to be closing, our daughter said she had no feeling in the end of her finger —it was hard, cold, and dark in color.
After re-bandaging and sending her off to school, I looked up the synonyms of the word “cold” and “hard.” I replaced these descriptions of stubborn, head-strong, etc., with the qualities that are the true reflection of the child of God, the attributes of the names for God — Principle, Mind, Soul, Spirit, Life, Truth, Love. I replaced the negative suggestions with what I knew to be true about God’s child, His reflection, and I claimed for our daughter only qualities such as cooperativeness, gentleness, and lovingkindness, and knew that this was the only truth about her. I felt God had led me in this direction, and I felt that all was secure in His keeping.
When our daughter returned home from school that very same day, her finger was warm and pink and had feeling. In a few days’ time, I couldn’t tell which finger had been injured.
I am so grateful to know of the Father-Mother God, revealed to us in Christian Science, who we can always turn to and find an answer.
D.W. - Virginia
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Recently, while driving to the airport, I began to feel sick to my stomach. After boarding my plane for a business trip, I began to feel worse. It was a dinner flight, but I could hardly eat anything.
I closed my eyes and asked God to help me. I thought of one of our hymns, which begins, “In atmosphere of love divine, we live and move and breathe.” I declared that was where I was — surrounded by divine Love and Love’s perfect ideas. I also remembered something I had been told by a fine Christian Science practitioner years ago: “The only thing that is contagious is good, because that’s all that God made.”
I had the privilege of traveling with a fine Christian Science practitioner, my wife, who was praying for this trip; and I could feel the power of her prayer. I found that very comforting just then.
By the time we got off the plane, I was feeling much better. Later that evening, I had to go out for something to eat before bed. I slept peacefully and spent a very full day conducting several business meetings, perfectly well.
I am so grateful for Christian Science, for Mary Baker Eddy for faithfully giving her discovery to mankind, and I am grateful for the prayers of the fine practitioner with whom I was traveling.
G. S. - New Jersey
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Several years ago, I had lost the use of my left arm and leg as a result of a stroke. After two years of trying several practitioners and various efforts in physical therapy, I was discouraged and out of work. The prospect of getting a job in my condition was grim. I’d grown up in Science and had experienced healings in the past, but at this point was pretty much convinced that an ailment of this nature was simply too big for Christian Science. I spent hours desperately scouring the internet for something, anything that could help me. One day on an online discussion group dedicated to Mary Baker Eddy, someone asked if there was any healing going on in Christian Science nowadays. Someone else mentioned a practitioner in an independent Christian Science Church in Plainfield, New Jersey. I called one of the practitioners listed on the church website, and tentatively asked for help with pain in my side (feared it was appendicitis). When it cleared up quickly I thought, “Well let’s see if he can help with this other thing.” The practitioner was quietly confident that “all things are possible to God,” and yet instilled in me a desire to get the full blessing from this experience, not simply escape from the problem.
Since working with this practitioner, I have been seeing tremendous improvements — landed a good job, was able to drive a car again, and when I was invited to participate in a scenic hike last fall, I welcomed the opportunity, as hiking had been a favorite past-time of mine until I was hit with this problem. I completed the hike but a few days afterwards I started to feel pain in both my legs. I prayed and the pain slowly dissipated. Later I started experiencing intense pain in both ankles and they became noticeably swollen and discolored. Friends who saw me hobbling about mentioned that I might have sprained both ankles during the hike. I finally called for help from the practitioner, as I could barely walk due to the stabbing pain in my ankles. I remember he said I was “a spiritual idea surrounded by spiritual ideas.” Shortly thereafter, the pain left completely and my ankles returned to normal.
But I got so much more than the removal of the physical problem! I recognized I had been focused on myself as a physical being, comprised of muscles and bones, etc. The practitioner reminded me that I was actually spiritual and the definition of man on page 475 of Science and Health reinforced that. Once I got my definition right, the healing followed soon after. And also — I needed a cane to get around, but several months after this healing I noticed that I was forgetting my cane more and more. One day last December I left work without the cane, and that is the last time I’ve used it. I used to panic when I found myself without it, but I’ve learned in this church that panic was no more than an aggressive suggestion, and that it was my divine right not to be swayed.
I had grown up attending Christian Science churches; but words alone can never express how thankful I am to have been led to the independence found in Plainfield, where the teaching of Mary Baker Eddy’s Christian Science is second to none. As well as bringing about “impossible” healing, it is transforming my life, and that is exciting!
S. A. - Maryland
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