Testimony of Healing August 6, 1979 Issue

Christian Science first caught my attention when life seemed...

Patricia L. Veira

Christian Science first caught my attention when life seemed bleak and desolate. My husband of six months had passed on suddenly, and grief and emptiness overwhelmed me. Earlier, a friend at work had given me a copy of the Sentinel, but it had lain in a drawer, unopened. Now, in my time of great need, I came across the magazine and read it. A new world opened up for me, and, with the friend who had given me the Sentinel, I started regularly attending services in a Church of Christ, Scientist.

Each day I rushed home from work to spend the whole evening, far into the night, studying Science earnestly. I needed very little sleep at this time. Soon my deep grief and gloom were dispelled. God's ever-present love enveloped me, wiping out all sense of loss and separation. It was a wonderful feeling.

For nearly thirty years I had been a slave to tobacco, a habit that had seemed impossible to break. But when I learned that smoking is not in consonance with the teachings of Christian Science, I knew that the habit had to go. Mrs. Eddy writes (Science and Health, p. 407), "Puffing the obnoxious fumes of tobacco, or chewing a leaf naturally attractive to no creature except a loathsome worm, is at least disgusting." I wanted earnestly to live up to the implications of this statement and felt confident that my strong desire for freedom would open the way for me.

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