Testimony of Healing July 26, 2010 Issue

TWO MEANINGFUL HEALINGS

ELIZABETH FINCH

For about six years, as a teenager, I suffered from severe menstrual cramps.

I remember my father picking me up at the nurse's office at school on at least one occasion. He took me home in silence, and I just was too shy to tell him about my problem. I thought he probably knew and didn't want to embarrass me by asking about it. He was a devoted Christian Scientist and had many healings, a very quiet man who was always praying for our family. I could always feel my parents' prayerful support.

My mother would share some spiritual truths with me, such as the idea that there is no substance in matter and therefore there can be no pain in matter. She would frequently give me Christian Science articles to read and ponder. I recall that I usually prayed with "the scientific statement of being" found in Science and Health (see p. 468). Praying about this issue brought relief, but there wasn't a permanent healing.

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