Testimony of Healing October 18, 1999 Issue

Prayer frees child from predicted problems due to premature birth

Tanisha A. Watley

My mother was a drug and alcohol abuser. As a result, I was born ten weeks premature, I was a very sick child, and I was not expected to live. I spent three months in an incubator.

Since my mother was not in a position to take care of me, when I was two and a half, she agreed to let my grandmother raise me. My grandmother was new to Christian Science at the time, but knew the power of prayer. She had been healed of depression, which she had suffered from for many years. My grandma believed in her heart that the same prayer could heal me also. She prayed to know that I was the perfect child of God. Nothing my mother had done while she had been pregnant could harm me, because God was my true Mother and Father.

After months of prayer, the doctors decided I was well enough to go home. Before I left the hospital, however, the doctors gave my family some discouraging news. They told them I would never be a "normal" child. Because of my mother's drug abuse, I was expected to have mild retardation, seizures, and numerous behavioral problems; learning to read would be next to impossible for me. On top of all this, I was born with both my feet turned inward, and the doctors said that breaking them and placing them in braces for a year was the only way to fix them. Well, my grandmother knew another way to heal all the problems they listed.

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