Testimony of Healing September 5, 2005 Issue

CHILD'S TEETHING PAIN HEALED—PERMANENTLY

RUSSELL WHITTAKER

When our first daughter was about a year old and started having her first teeth grow in, she often cried in pain. In addition to immediately picking her up and loving and holding her, making her as comfortable as possible, we prayed, Because I'd had many healings of a wide variety of complications since my own childhood, I knew I could rely on God for just the right answer to heal this situation.

My wife and I had heard of other remedies, ones available at the supermarket or pharmacy, but the remedy we chose, because we'd had it work so beautifully many, many times before, was scientific prayer — reaching out in thought to God, whose love and compassion and healing power we understood a little more each time we relied on Him. Grace, our daughter, would always quiet down and go back to sleep when we prayed for her. But the teething issue persisted, so we persisted in praying more ardently.

Then another tooth began to come in, and one night Grace was in pain again. I got out of bed and picked her up out of her crib to comfort her. As I held her close in the middle of the dark room, I humbly and sincerely reached out in prayer to God for help. This line from Hymn No. 148 in the Christian Science Hymnal immediately came to thought: "No change my heart shall fear" (Anna L. Waring).

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