Testimony of Healing May 1, 1989 Issue

The commonly held belief about someone who has become dependent...

Douglas L. Reeder, Jr.

The commonly held belief about someone who has become dependent on alcohol is that he or she is never healed of being alcoholic but is "recovering" one day at a time. I share this testimony in the hope that it may help someone else to be healed completely and permanently of alcoholism as I have been.

During the summer when I was fifteen I became involved with a group of friends who did a great deal of drinking. Wanting very much to be liked and accepted and not wanting to be rejected, I joined in with the drinking. Within a year I was drinking three or four times a week, and within three years I was drinking almost daily.

I reached a point where I was out of money, with no job, frightened, and faced with final examinations that I needed to "ace" in order to graduate from college. Finally, in this desperate state I prayed to God to help me get out of the mess I was in. My answer came through Christian Science.

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