Testimony of Healing October 25, 2004 Issue

Science and Health's ideas bring health and freedom

Francis Bwalya

When I completed my secondary school education in 1995 in Zambia's northern province, I had lost all direction in life. I drank beer a lot and smoked dagga (marijuana). I was also stealing from my relatives to support my habits. I could not live with my relatives anymore because of my behavior. Both of my parents had passed away two years earlier, and being the firstborn in a family with two children, a boy and a girl, life had just seemed tough and rough.

I got married in 1996, and my wife gave birth to a son. A year later, I decided to move from my hometown of Mpika to Lusaka, Zambia's capital, to search for a college to attend or for a job. I stayed with a friend because an aunt (my mother's cousin) would not have me live with her family. Later that year, my aunt asked me to start taking care of the plot of land she had acquired in Kabanana, a town just outside Lusaka. It was at this point that I came to my senses and started searching for spiritual truth and comfort. I think it was because of all the suffering I had experienced.

It was also at this time that I found myself in the Lusaka Central Prison, one of four men charged with murder, a crime I did not commit. It was while I was in prison, however, that I came across Christian Science.

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