Testimony of Healing April 9, 1977 Issue

Christian Science has been like a golden thread running through...

Winnie Koepke

Christian Science has been like a golden thread running through my life. There have been many times when I have strayed from its teachings, but I have always been brought gently and lovingly back.

Some of the outstanding healings in our home have been almost instantaneous. During pregnancy I was told by the doctor who was to deliver the child that my blood count was as low as someone suffering from malnutrition. He was quite alarmed and gave me a prescription, saying I should return in two weeks for further tests. I went home without filling the medical prescription and called the Christian Science practitioner who was praying for me. Neither she nor I was disturbed. I continued with my regular prayerful metaphysical work, studying the Bible Lesson in the Christian Science Quarterly and the passage from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy that includes this statement (p. 151): "The blood, heart, lungs, brain, etc., have nothing to do with Life, God." I had absolutely no fear, and no doubt that when I returned for the test everything would be all right. At the end of two weeks the doctor pronounced my blood count normal!

Another healing occurred when our young daughter became ill. Her body was covered with a rash. I was quite fearful. In one conversation with the practitioner who was treating the child, he wisely told me to stop "tending the regulator," referring me to Miscellaneous Writings by Mrs. Eddy (p. 353): "Some people try to tend folks, as if they should steer the regulator of mankind. God makes us pay for tending the action that He adjusts." This lifted my fear, and the rash disappeared overnight. There were other symptoms that needed to be cleared up, and when I again called the practitioner, he told me to stop treating her as a sick child. This wakened me; I stopped treating her as a sick child. She was well and went to school the next day.