Testimony of Healing May 19, 2014 Issue

No more stomachaches

Ginga Canzala

Originally written in Portuguese, this testimony first appeared in the March 2014 Portuguese, French, German, and Spanish editions of The Herald of Christian Science.

For five years I suffered from chronic and severely painful stomachaches. During this time I saw different physicians, who attributed the pain to an infection. They asked me to take prescribed antibiotics and drink only filtered water. These drugs provided temporary relief, but after a week or two, the pain would recur. No drug could stop the condition for good.

Stomachaches are often associated with tension, anxiety, and stress. In fact, I worried about many things, especially about my health, and feared losing my life to a disease.

But in 2009 I had a turning point. When I was taking a specialized course in Portugal, a work colleague invited me to attend a service in a local Christian Science church. Everyone in that church was very friendly, and one of the members offered me a couple of issues of the Portuguese edition of The Herald of Christian Science, O Arauto da Ciência Cristã. I liked the ideas from the magazines so much, and wanted to learn more about healing in Christian Science. So, after returning to Angola in December 2009, I bought a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, and started reading it.