Testimony of Healing February 6, 1984 Issue

My life today bears little resemblance to what it was six years ago...

JANICE S. SAUNDERS

My life today bears little resemblance to what it was six years ago when I seriously resumed my study of Christian Science. Although I had been raised in Science, I strayed from its teachings during college and early adulthood. I thought that by living in conformity with the moral and spiritual demands of this Science, I would be missing out on life. That reasoning has proved to be false, for through my renewed study I have gained the true, spiritual sense of life, and much more.

A short while after I had returned to the study of Christian Science, my husband and I desired to start a family. Soon I thought I was pregnant, but there were problems from the start. I got in touch with a Christian Science practitioner, who agreed to pray for me. I also retained a doctor for the delivery in order to comply with state law. Three months passed, and one day I began hemorrhaging. Although the doctor's tests had confirmed and now reconfirmed a pregnancy, the condition persisted until I apparently had a miscarriage.

The doctor was called because of the miscarriage. He informed me that I had not been pregnant but had had a tumor, and he said that pathologists would be examining the growth to determine whether or not it was malignant. As the doctor was telling me all this, a small voice within me prayed, "God, give me strength," because I felt that only through radical reliance on God would I be healed of the physical and psychological effects of this experience.

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