Testimony of Healing March 13, 1995 Issue

I found Christian Science in 1973

Judith Hepburn

I found Christian Science in 1973. At that time I was a medical nurse with an RN degree and a master's degree in education, with a nursing major. When I was in my final year of nursing school, there was an instant when I saw very clearly I was in the wrong place; but having invested nearly five years in an undergraduate degree program, I continued on and found that I enjoyed teaching nursing in a community college. My experience included work in obstetrics, in a tuberculosis hospital, and I was head nurse in a kidney dialysis unit. I taught operating room, intensive care and emergency room nursing, and advanced medical-surgical nursing.

When I heard about Christian Science, I was in the midst of a divorce. My husband was an alcoholic, and I was supporting our baby daughter by working two jobs to make ends meet. I was seeing a psychiatrist and taking tranquilizers in order to try to keep going.

One weekend when I was not scheduled to work, I was called to fill a job, and because I needed the money, I accepted. My patient had been in an automobile accident, and her sister was a Christian Science practitioner. We had many conversations, in which this practitioner or the sister told me about Christian Science and invited me to visit the church across the street from the hospital.

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