Testimony of Healing April 7, 1986 Issue

Words can never fully express my deepest...

PATRICIA SIDES ANDERSON

Words can never fully express my deepest gratitude and love for Christian Science. When I picked up an issue of the Sentinel from a literature distribution box at an airport one day, I had never heard of Christian Science, and my life was in a desperate state. I had decided to commit suicide. Physically I was humped over to the right and could not straighten up; my right leg was shorter than the other. I had been ill most of my childhood and had what doctors diagnosed as scoliosis.

An article in that issue of the Sentinel included this verse from the Bible (Gen. 1:27): "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." How wonderful it was to think of God as creating man in His image, and to think of Him as Love. As I read the testimonies of healing in the back of the Sentinel, it was glorious to learn that God cherishes each of His children. The healings related were proof of this.

I went to a Christian Science Reading Room to purchase a copy of the textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. I bombarded the Reading Room attendant with questions, and she lovingly directed me to a list of practitioners given in the back of The Christian Science Journal. I got in touch with a Christian Science practitioner and was able to go see her. She was very understanding, and she agreed to pray for me.

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