Testimony of Healing November 26, 1990 Issue

"The ears of the deaf shall be unstopped" (Isaiah)

Helen McKee Sengebush

"The ears of the deaf shall be unstopped" (Isaiah). When I was a young woman I lost the hearing in my right ear, and then my left ear became partially deaf. I was forced to lip-read and often asked people to repeat what they had said. I could barely hear the Sunday service at the branch Church of Christ, Scientist, I attended and was unable to pick up testimonies at Wednesday evening meetings. The feeling of remoteness and separation from everything was most distressing.

At this time in my life, a series of traumatic events, which caused me great mental and physical distress, took place within a short period of time. I turned humbly to my Father-Mother God for help, and, with the prayerful support of a Christian Science practitioner, I gradually regained my health. However, the deafness persisted.

Having been an earnest student of Christian Science all my life, I was confident that the condition could be healed through prayer. Though well-meaning friends urged me to seek medical treatment, I had a strong spiritual conviction that there was nothing wrong with my ears. I studied the spiritual meaning of ears as given in the Glossary of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, part of which reads, "Ears. Not organs of the so-called corporeal senses, but spiritual understanding."

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