Testimony of Healing August 15, 1953 Issue

I am come that they might have...

Helen Audrey Walker

"I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly," said Christ Jesus (John 10:10). These words have had meaning for me since I began seriously to rely on Christian Science for my every need. With a desire to express my deep gratitude for this fact I write my testimony.

After two and a half years of married life my husband passed on, and six months later my son was born. My grief was so deep that for the next five years my life was one of existence only. Although I became interested in Christian Science three years after my husband's passing, it did not occur to me to apply its teachings to help me overcome this grief. The belief that perhaps time would bring healing may have been the reason for this negligence; but I have since proved that it is not time but divine Truth which is the healer.

When I was in deep despair I asked a Christian Science practitioner for help. She gave me one treatment, and I shall never forget the love that encompassed me when she spoke. Two weeks later a friend who had recently been through an experience of grief similar to mine was speaking to me of it. As I listened to the same arguments of mortal mind that I had been accepting for five years, like a voice shouting in my ear these words came: "Aggressive mental suggestion." The load of grief that I had been carrying dropped from me, and I was free.

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