Testimony of Healing November 8, 1993 Issue

As I think back over the years of my life, my heart overflows...

Elouise Rust Thompson

As I think back over the years of my life, my heart overflows with gratitude for the many beautiful healings and the evidence of divine care that I've seen. Mere words cannot express my feelings of true happiness and joy, and the fulfillment that has been mine as a student of Mary Baker Eddy's book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

Recently I had an experience which proved to me that there is nothing that God cannot do, and that I can know what to do in an emergency situation. As a friend and I were walking across a dark parking lot, I fell. It appeared that I had broken my arm. My friend is a consecrated Christian Scientist and gently helped me up; all the way home we affirmed the truth of "the scientific statement of being" (Science and Health, p. 468). When I arrived home, another Christian Scientist friend was there to comfort and help me. I wondered aloud if I should go to the hospital to have the bone set. My friend was very kind in leaving me free to make my own decision about this.

Instantly I knew my decision and called a Christian Science practitioner. I wanted to rely radically (completely) on God for healing. A Christian Science nurse came and helped put my arm in a sling to give it support. This dear friend also helped me to bed and read to me from Science and Health. Two selections she read were the description of man (p. 475) and the answer to the question "Does brain think, and do nerves feel, and is there intelligence in matter?" (pp. 478–482).