Testimony of Healing February 5, 1979 Issue

The healing for which I am most grateful took place one night...

Dorothy T. Ryburan

The healing for which I am most grateful took place one night last winter when I awoke with a pounding headache. From early childhood, I had had erratic heart action and fluctuating blood pressure, with resulting difficulties. Doctors who were consulted, as I was not a Christian Scientist, always said it was a condition I must learn to live with. But this night I turned wholeheartedly to God and knew that, as His child and reflection, this condition was no part of my true nature and had no basis in reality. "Man's extremity is God's opportunity," as Mrs. Eddy quotes in Science and Health (p. 266). The pain stopped so quickly and was followed by such complete calm, I was almost sure that I had passed into a new existence! And, in fact, this is true! There has been no return of any of the former related difficulties. Formerly there was almost daily evidence of them in some way. I truly feel I have had a "new birth" and better understand Mrs. Eddy's statement (ibid., p. 103), "Life and being are of God."

A second healing is one of excessive bleeding whenever I cut or even pricked my skin. While I was discarding a tin can lid, it slipped and cut my finger deeply. I immediately wrapped the finger in a paper towel, determined not to give any power to matter, or even to acknowledge any accident had occurred. The bleeding was profuse. I went to the living room to sit and rethink the articles on healing, which I had been reviewing earlier that afternoon from Christian Science publications. I also pondered Mrs. Eddy's statement in answer to the question "What is man?" (ibid., p. 475): "Man is not matter; he is not made up of brain, blood, bones, and other material elements." This resulted in almost immediate stoppage of the bleeding, and no other bandage was required. Within just a few days the area was completely healed, and no scar is visible. This healing has brought me to realize the certainty that there is healing for all who are challenged with hemophilia.

Another healing was of an area of soreness and swelling under my arm. A similar problem when I was a teen-ager, and before I knew of Christian Science, required lancing by a doctor, and bandaging for more than a week. But this time I studied Mrs. Eddy's teaching that we not fear that matter can be swollen or inflamed or painful. Matter is not true substance. This treatment was adequate to stop the pain, and in a few days the swelling had disapperaed. I rejoiced in the rapidity of this healing!

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