Testimony of Healing January 24, 2000 Issue

Asthma healed

Kendra Santuccio

For approximately four years I experienced an allergylike reaction during certain seasons. The second year it was so bad once, that my husband, who is not a Christian Scientist, took me to an emergency medical facility, and they gave me some antibiotics. I did as my husband wished and took the medicine, but it really did not help me to breathe any more freely. The season for allergies just passed, without a healing for me.

Each year the attacks would become more severe and last for a longer time. I would pray about the situation, but never thoroughly enough to heal the problem. The fourth and final year, I had what could perhaps be described as fullblown asthma attacks. I decided that I couldn't live with this any longer.

I called a Christian Science practitioner to pray with me until this condition was healed. Many things were revealed to me during this time. There were two pages of Science and Health in particular that I studied. On the second, Mary Baker Eddy states: "We are Christian Scientists, only as we quit our reliance upon that which is false and grasp the true. We are not Christian Scientists until we leave all for Christ" (p. 192). This, I knew, was the starting point for me. I knew that the only way to heal this disease was to follow the example of our Master. I was ready to rely radically on God and His Christ to heal me, no matter how long it might take.

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