Testimony of Healing April 4, 1988 Issue

My first published testimony in our Christian Science periodicals...

Esther C. Tipper

My first published testimony in our Christian Science periodicals ended with this quotation from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy (pp. 348-349): "If such are the present fruits, what will the harvest be, when this Science is more generally understood?" This was over eighteen years ago, and the harvest of blessings has never ceased.

One special blessing was the selling of our house and the relocating of our home. My husband had wanted to sell but I had not. This alerted me to pray about my motives and purposes. The house was on the market for one year without a single offer. We took the house off the market, and that night I spent the evening praying to be sure I wanted God's will done, not mine. Several days later, under most unusual circumstances, the house sold.

From this point on I felt confident in listening for God's direction in the project of relocating. It was exciting to see how God's goodness unfolded as preconceived notions were dropped and thought opened to new ideas. My daily prayers included specific work for this project, based on lines 6 through 10 on page 463 of Science and Health. This project represented to me a divine idea. I saw that the project needed to be detached from mortal thought so that its birth, or unfoldment, would be harmonious, safe, and useful to its surroundings. And so it proved. It unfolded beautifully all the way from buying a lot rather than a small house as we had intended, to locating each contractor as needed, including landscapers; and financing kept pace. This house, including the location, meets our needs beyond our expectations, and we love caring for it and sharing it.

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