Testimony of Healing March 17, 1980 Issue

One morning when I was washing my hair, my small daughter...

PHYLLIS D. DILL

One morning when I was washing my hair, my small daughter noticed a bald spot on my head. I grew quite concerned. At the time, I'd just terminated an unhappy marriage of several years, and we were living with my sister. I had attended a Christian Science Sunday School as a child but had grown away from Science through the years. My sister, who had remained an earnest student, asked if she could be of help. But I was so afraid that I decided to see a specialist.

The doctor said that the condition might get worse and spread to other parts of my head. He also gave me a prescription to fill and told me to come back in two weeks for possible X-ray treatments. I decided then and there that my only means of healing would be Christian Science, and I threw away the prescription.

When I arrived home, I called a Christian Science practitioner, who prayed for me over a period of several weeks. She also helped me gain a better understanding of spiritual truths found in the Bible Lessons in the Christian Science Quarterly. I became so absorbed in learning more of God and my relationship to Him that I completely forgot about the hair problem. I began to feel a wonderful joy, serenity, and contentment that I'd never before known. The turning point came after I'd read the biography Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy by Irving C. Tomlinson. I felt deeply inspired and at the same time humbled, and I prayed to God that I might express in some measure the courage, dedication, and love for mankind that Mrs. Eddy had. Then something lovely happened. A bright light seemed to fill the entire room. To me it was the light of divine Truth—a pure awareness of God's omnipresence. And momentarily this was all I was conscious of. It was a holy experience, one I will never forget.

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