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I will always remember my first healing in Christian Science...
I Will always remember my first healing in Christian Science while in elementary school. I had fallen from an aboveground pool ladder onto a concrete patio while still in a sitting position. There was much pain. I went inside to think about passages from the Bible and from the chapter in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy entitled "Prayer." I remember realizing I had a choice either to dwell on the pain and feel sorry for myself, or to trust God and live the spiritual truths I'd been thinking about. I chose the latter, and within minutes the pain that had made it uncomfortable even to sit on a soft couch disappeared. Within a couple of days, severe bruises also disappeared.
This healing and subsequent ones I had at school and summer camp were foundational. Later in my teenage years, when well-meaning friends questioned how I knew Christian Science was really true and not just some nice theory I had grown up with, I remembered such healings, attained through demonstration of the truths of Christian Science. These healings were proof to me, during times of doubt or confusion, that Christian Science is true and factual, not just theoretical. They were proof that there is a God whose healing power is always available and practical.

December 14, 1992 issue
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FROM THE EDITORS
The Editors
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"What is it that you people do?"
Evelyn M. S. Duckett
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FROM HAND TO HAND
K. B.
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Implementing business decisions
Deanna J. Elsom
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Second Thought
Protestant Service for the Sick "The Healing Powers of Faith" by Dr. Hansjörg Sick, Higher Church Council (ret.)
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Spiritual healing
Bea Roegge, Barbara Vining
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Truth or illusion?
Emily Wright Jaeger
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Letters to the PRESS—and other articles
by Ruth Elizabeth Jenks
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The role of expectancy in healing
William E. Moody
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Affection and what it contributes to healing
Russ Gerber
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What we packed
Glory Holzworth
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I will always remember my first healing in Christian Science...
Carol Wait Ames with contributions from Janie Dale
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As a student of Christian Science I have learned to face...
Yvette Diepenbruck
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To be a Christian Scientist is to demonstrate the teachings...
James R. Arnott