Testimony of Healing March 7, 1994 Issue

My love for Christian Science includes gratitude for the...

Denis R. Charbeneau

My love for Christian Science includes gratitude for the healings I have had as the result of prayer. I have been able to utilize the spiritual truths about man I was taught in the Christian Science Sunday School. I have been healed of injuries received in an automobile accident, of slipping on ice and injuring my shoulder, of grief after the passing on of a family member, and even of seasickness while in the Navy.

A couple of years ago I received a letter containing several false accusations about me. Prior to this time, if I had been falsely accused of something I could have easily dismissed it, knowing it was a lie and could not hurt me. But this time I was not able to dismiss it as easily, having found out that a copy of the letter had been sent to two people who mean very much to me. This fact made me resentful and angry. I knew it wasn't proper for me to harbor such ill feelings, yet I felt justified. And the more I dwelt on the apparent injustice done to me, the more resentment and anger were stockpiled in my thought.

I finally realized that the only way I could solve this problem was by destroying these hateful thoughts by turning to my first love, Christian Science. I remember reading in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, "Truth creates neither a lie, a capacity to lie, nor a liar" (p. 357). I also read an article in The Christian Science Journal written by someone who had been falsely accused; the author's healing came when he realized that, as he put it, if God didn't say something it wasn't said and it wasn't heard. There was my answer!