Testimony of Healing October 10, 1983 Issue

I am very grateful for Christian Science

JUDY DE MARTINIS

I am very grateful for Christian Science. About three years ago I was a heavy smoker of cigarettes and marijuana, and I used alcohol to try to escape from problems. Around then my two boys were very ill with ear infections, and so I often took them to the doctor. The infections kept recurring, so the doctor told me that I must give them the medicine all the time, whether the pain was there or not. Soon the boys were so ill that the doctor wanted to operate. One boy was just six months old, and I became very fearful that the operation might damage his hearing permanently. Then one day the older boy woke from his nap crying because of the pain and fever. When aspirin did not do any good, I thought: "I just can't go through this anymore. Help me, God." Then I remembered a book called Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy that my violin teacher had given me a few years before. I remembered that Christian Science heals without medicine and that Christian Scientists believe God always helps.

I called this friend and asked her if she thought Christian Science could help my child. She told me of the many healings she had had and assured me that God does heal. She also gave me the telephone number of a Christian Science practitioner. Full of hope, I called the practitioner and told her the problem. She said that God loved my boys and that they did not have to suffer. She also agreed to pray for them if I would trust them to God. There was such conviction of God's love in her voice that I gladly agreed and did not use the medicine any longer. Soon the fever left the one boy and he slept peacefully. The next day he was out of the house, playing happy and free. The other boy was healed through prayer also. And they never again had this problem with their ears.

I was so grateful that I started reading Science and Health to find out how God had healed my sons. The goodness I read about in that book seemed much more important than getting drunk, or taking drugs for pleasure and amusement. Soon the desire to be good replaced all desire for alcohol and marijuana. I was healed. Afterward I began to visit services in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, on Wednesdays and Sundays. I felt such comfort, such complete peace and harmony during them, that I kept attending, and reading Science and Health. Also I loved what was written on the wall of the church (Science and Health, p. 494): "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need."

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