Testimony of Healing May 5, 2014 Issue

'Frozen shoulder' healed

Suzanne Hope-Wynne

Early last year I experienced a loss of movement in one of my shoulders and, at times, excruciating pain in that shoulder as well. I have for many years studied the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, which have given me a deeper understanding of God as Life, our very substance and consciousness, entirely separate from a material identification of ourselves. It was natural for me to pray about this condition, since prayer has brought harmony to discordant conditions of all kinds in my life before.

Because my family, who are not Christian Scientists, did not like to see me in discomfort, they asked if I would go to the doctor and I did. I was given a diagnosis of “frozen shoulder” and was referred to a specialist. However, the doctor couldn’t promise that anything could be done about the condition, and warned that I might have to cope with the discomfort for up to 18 months. I was happy that the referral was for some months away, and contacted a Christian Science practitioner for spiritual treatment in the meantime.

Interestingly, the practitioner I worked with had already overcome this same condition herself through Christian Science treatment alone. We started by taking a look at the words of Hymn 430 in the Christian Science Hymnal Supplement Hymns 430-462, which begins:

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