Testimony of Healing May 24, 1969 Issue

My gratitude for Christian Science is unbounded

Josephine C. Strauss

My gratitude for Christian Science is unbounded. I attended Sunday School for eleven years, and as a child I proved the healing presence of God.

In later years I was faced with difficulty. I seemed to have no identity of my own but seemed to be half my father and half my mother. At the time this became a big problem. I had just been married and was trying to adjust to this new life. Because of the confusion I seemed to suffer a nervous breakdown. A great mental darkness settled on me, and nothing seemed worth living for. This was unusual because, regardless of the identity problem, I generally was a joyful person.

A great deal of physical suffering accompanied this experience, so a Christian Science practitioner was called. I remember he told me to look for something beautiful to think about and to be grateful for. I seemed to have lost my appreciation of beauty, but lie asked me to look at the lovely green grass and thank God for it. So I looked out the window to the beautiful grass, and there was a robin hopping on it. This was the beginning of the healing because I shall never forget the joy of that moment; in that lovely scene I recognized the expression of God's goodness again. Spiritual sense was being awakened.

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