Testimony of Healing January 22, 2001 Issue

Healing in the face of helplessness

Marguerite A. Coffin

One morning several years ago, one of my hands began to show signs of what I believed to be Parkinson's disease. This was a disease that had afflicted my grandmother all her later years.

Knowing that the first step in healing through Christian Science is to eradicate fear, I recalled as many facts about God as I could, refusing to outline the worst that might happen—at which time the trembling stopped completely. But the following morning, it started once more.

At first I felt helpless, because I didn't think that I or anyone else could heal me.

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