Testimony of Healing January 16, 1984 Issue

After having my second child (who was quite sickly),...

BETTE V. FUQUA

After having my second child (who was quite sickly), in the midst of other trials and disappointments including a troubled marriage, I reasoned that somehow there must be a depth to living I was not experiencing, something better than what the human scene alone offered. Surely, I thought, there is a higher purpose to life than just eating, sleeping, working, human pleasures and problems. This mental awakening stirred a desire in me to search for an understanding of God I could accept, and to find my real purpose in living.

Soon after, I joined a prayer group in the Protestant church where I was a member. Next I began visiting the city libraries and bookstores, trying to find books about or by people who had had "prayer experiences." Then, while attending meetings of this prayer group, I discovered that a dear friend in it had been raised in Christian Science. A few months later she gave me a copy of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. As I read it, my questions were answered. I no longer needed to haunt bookstores and libraries. I felt satisfied. I was discovering that the only real God is good, a God of love, not the sender of sickness, hardship, pain, and death.

Even though my initial desire was to know and understand God and the reason for existing, very soon after starting to study Science I was healed of illnesses I had suffered with for many years—for example, headaches, respiratory ailments (colds, bronchitis), and indigestion.

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