Testimony of Healing December 28, 1998 Issue

Physical, emotional, and mental troubles overcome

Aileen M. Cord

I have been healed of recurring sore throat; the effects of puncture wounds from a rusty barbecue fork being accidentally imbedded in my foot; colds; deep cuts in both hands and feet; and many other difficulties. The healing I would like to share now is of a problem that occurred while I held a job as an administrator in a facility that was enmeshed in financial and directional challenges. The biweekly board meeting were long and arduous. I was driving a hundred miles a day, often staying the night to complete my heavy workload. At the same time, our younger teenage son had become involved with friends and activities that dismayed and frightened my husband and me. I keenly felt it was up to me, personally, to resolve all these issues and was totally "stressed out" as things got worse instead of better.

When these challenges began to affect me physically, I engaged a Christian Science practitioner to give me treatment through prayer, and I admitted myself to a Christian Science nursing facility, thinking that after a few days of quiet rest, while others looked after my personal needs, I would resume my normal routine. Those "few days" turned out to be seven months of extreme physical, emotional, and mental troubles. The main bodily dysfunction was an apparent inability to digest food properly, along with many other symptoms. I lost a great deal of weight, and much of my hair fell out. At one point, friends and family feared that I was passing on.

Although I seemed to be in the pit of hell much of those seven months, there were incredibly inspiring experiences as well. One of these came after weeks of struggling with a relentless temptation to go get X-rayed in an attempt to put a name to what was troubling me. When I finally told the practitioner this, he glanced out the window into the gathering early evening darkness. Then he quietly told me I could certainly do that if that's what I wanted to do. But he urged me to think about it for a minute, pointing out that because they only show images of matter, X-ray photographs can't indicate reality. He asked if I really wanted more images of matter in my life. I didn't, and with a smile of relief, I thanked him.

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