Article February 20, 2006 Issue

PRAYER AND PAIN RELIEF

BY BEVERLY GOLDSMITH

I GREW UP in a family that believed pain and suffering were things that had to be endured, and that some ailments had no cure. Like other people I knew, we'd often take a drug to gain relief. Back then, I thought this was the way it had to be.

As a young girl, I attended several Christian Sunday School and read of Jesus' healings. I felt sad that Jesus wasn't present to heal me and my family of illness.

Then my grandmother was given a copy of Science and Health. She read it and was healed of a longstanding ailment for which she'd worn a heavy surgical corset and taken ten different tablets every day. This healing led me to begin studying Christian Science.