Testimony of Healing March 15, 2004 Issue

Thanks be to God

Originally published in El Heraldo de la Christian Science

Pilar Álvarez

I became acquainted with Christian Science at the age of five. I was eating almost nothing. My skin was a frightening murky color, and I was very thin. Nobody knew what was wrong with me, not even a professor of pediatrics in Uruguay, who told my father that he held out no hope for me—that I was too weak to survive puberty.

When he heard of my situation, a friend of my father's told him that Christian Science had helped his wife very much. My parents then began to read the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, which teaches that we are sons and daughters of God, created spiritual and perfect. They began to pray for me, and I began to improve right away. The color returned to my face. I began eating, and this improvement continued until I was completely well.

Years later, the doctors told me I would not be able to have children. The prognosis was that I would have problems at childbirth, and that I would have to have surgery. I began to pray by reasoning that if God made us already spiritual and perfect, then I didn't need an operation. None of those predictions came true, although one of my daughters was a very big child and I only weighed 100 pounds. My parents' prayers helped me, and everything turned out well.

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