When I learned of Christian Science, I had many physical ills...

Elena Foonod de Foonod

When I learned of Christian Science, I had many physical ills that I thought were due to age. I had accepted the belief that after a certain age one's health worsened, and I was resigned to this. In addition I was tormented by heaviness of spirit, and I didn't want to live. One day a friend said to me, "I know a place I'm going to take you, to see if you like it." She took me to the nearest branch Church of Christ, Scientist. I liked it so much I couldn't wait for the next Sunday service, and then for the Wednesday testimony meeting. I didn't know that sick people were healed of physical ills there, for I was searching for spiritual consolation; but in a few months I realized that I was healed of rheumatism, headaches, and sinusitis.

For two years prior to this, I had noticed that one side of my neck was different from the other. This didn't bother me; I didn't pay attention to it. Then one night I awoke in pain. In the morning a neighbor saw me and said, "Go to the doctor. What are you waiting for?" But I said to her, "I'm not going. God will heal me." This was on a Thursday. Very early the next Sunday morning I went to church. I didn't know anyone, but, upon seeing my need, two people in the church, who traveled on the same bus with me, said they would introduce me to a Christian Science practitioner. And they did. On Monday I went to the practitioner's house. She spoke to me with much love and explained that, to God, no evil had happened to me. The practitioner calmed me down a lot. Thanks to the love of God and the practitioner's prayers, in twenty days I was perfectly free. The great enlargement on my neck was gone.

I would also like to relate another experience. Some years later I suffered from what is called tetter (although I didn't have a medical diagnosis). I had felt troubled about a situation. Some people had accused me of something of which I was absolutely innocent. The injustice was so great and so unexpected that I thought I couldn't forget it, and I found it very difficult even to go to church. Finally I went to talk to the same practitioner, who translated for me the article by Mary Baker Eddy in Miscellaneous Writings entitled "Love Your Enemies" (pp. 8-13). This beautiful article made me see the error in my thought that I needed to correct; I did correct it through prayer and learned to love more. I was healed rapidly of the skin condition.

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