Testimony of Healing May 15, 1995 Issue

I attended a Christian Science Sunday School all through childhood

Susan Calender

I attended a Christian Science Sunday School all through childhood. In my senior year in high school, I began to see that Christian Science teaches universal Truth, and from that time I have devoured it. Even though it began to help me in a very special way with daily problems, I found I was most of all relieved and grateful that there is one universal Truth, and that I had found it. This fact has never lost its significance for me.

From the time I was nine years old, I suffered from periods of deep depression. At that time this condition was not commonly known as depression, but was just assumed to be sadness. But as opposed to sadness, a great and all-encompassing darkness would take over my thought, and I would feel utter hopelessness about life. I would find myself with absolutely no desire to break out of this state. As a child, I would want to curl up in a corner and not move, and as an adult at work, I would do the work I had to do and then, whenever possible, run and hide in a bathroom or storeroom so I wouldn't have to talk to anyone. These states of depression would last three months at a time, and then gradually I would become myself again, but never understanding why these bouts came upon me or what to do about it if they came again.

The last time this condition occurred, I was teaching in an elementary school. By this time, I had been studying Christian Science for quite a few years, and knew it to be truth. I'd had my own wonderful healings and knew of others who had had them too. So this time I knew the depression must be healed.

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