Testimony of Healing October 9, 1995 Issue

The greatest benefit that I attribute directly to the understanding...

Bambah-Jean Riedel

The greatest benefit that I attribute directly to the understanding of God, given to me in studying Christian Science, is freedom—the freedom affirmed in the passage: "Know, then, that you posses sovereign power to think and act rightly, and that nothing can dispossess you of this heritage and trespass on Love" (Pulpit and Press by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 3).

After my marriage, following several years with no prospects of having children, the idea of adoption was presented to my husband and me. At first I could not accept this; I was so certain that healing meant only that I would bear a child. But as I prayed, and studied references to Life and creation in the Bible and in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, my viewpoint changed.

Following a move to a distant city, I joined a Christian Science church for the first time. My husband and I together visited a practitioner; we both desired to attain a clearer understanding of God as Life. I recall a verse from Isaiah that the practitioner quoted with such authority: "The Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannual it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? (14:27) We soon found that we lived within a few blocks of a well-known adoption agency. We were most welcome to apply, and the subsequent adoptions of a baby boy and then a baby girl brought the fulfillment of the family we had been praying to recognize we could not be deprived of.

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