Testimony of Healing December 26, 1983 Issue

Each week and month, for many years, I have looked forward to...

RUTH KUSSMANN RICHMOND

Each week and month, for many years, I have looked forward to reading the testimonies published in every issue of the Christian Science periodicals. Always they have been a source of inspiration and hope to me. I feel now that it is time I add my own testimony and express something of my deep gratitude for Christian Science.

My family came into Science through a healing of my aunt. Afterward we began attending a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, and I was enrolled in the Sunday School along with my two sisters and my brother.

Shortly after starting in the Sunday School, I had my first healing. I had been suffering with a condition of hives that covered my body, so my mother had engaged a Christian Science practitioner to help me through prayer. Supported by the practitioner's good work and using what I had learned in Sunday School, I affirmed with conviction that man is the image and likeness of God—pure and perfect. I then began to review the Ten Commandments (see Ex. 20:3–17). Beginning with the first—"Thou shalt have no other gods before me"—I thought, "Since God is All, if I want to be obedient to this commandment, I must worship Him only—not a belief of hives." When I came to the seventh commandment, "Thou shalt not commit adultery," I remembered that my Sunday School teacher had said that to adulterate can mean to mix good and bad. All of a sudden I reasoned that if disease were real, it would adulterate the allness of God. I was healed in that moment. There was great rejoicing in my family, and the difficulty never recurred.

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