Testimony of Healing August 18, 2008 Issue

RECOVERY FROM PARALYSIS

EMMANUEL GONCALVES QUIST

When Science and Health came into my life, I was thrilled because the book spoke to me directly. At the time I picked it up, I was passing through a low point in my life, when the world could not offer me anything meaningful. But I said to myself, "Oh, this writer and this book know me vividly—that I am spiritual, immortal, and a thinker!" Learning about Christian Science removed the cobwebs and fear from my thought. I began to give up a lot of little habits that were selfish and self-centered. And I began to have healings.

One Sunday in May 2007, I was serving as First Reader of my local Christian Science branch church, when I felt numb on the right side of my body—from my head through my leg. This happened during the service, and I motioned for someone to come up and help me to a chair. The thought of my daughter and my wife, who had just started a course on Christian Science nursing in another country, occupied my attention. I wished my wife could have been there to comfort me, and I felt engrossed in a world of melancholy, despondency, and gloom.

I was angry and disappointed because I felt that the spiritual truths I'd just been speaking in the church service were being challenged. But I'd had healings in Christian Science before, so I knew it was natural to prove that God was Love, and that He'd never cause suffering or pain. Within a few minutes, my other daughter came to me and told me that God was in control and that He loved me. Healing dawned in my thoughts that very moment, even though the symptoms of paralysis were still present.

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