Article November 7, 2011 Issue

My new hold on life

A complete transformation after being healed of cancer—including a new marriage and career.

By Leslie Coughtry

I wasn’t looking for Christian Science, but Christian Science found me—and I am profoundly grateful that it did.

About thirteen years ago, I began suffering from seizures, which I was told by doctors were the result of inoperable brain cancer. Right around the time I had my first chemotherapy treatment, a new friend who knew that I was struggling offered me a copy of Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy. He told me that many people had been healed by just reading the book. I hadn’t a clue how this could translate into the kind of healing I was looking for, but the kindness and compassion shared with me during this difficult time encouraged me to trust that there was truth in my friend’s kind gesture.

In the years since I was given this book of Truth, it has been a most precious gift. I was taken by Mrs. Eddy’s first words: “To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings,” as well as “the time for thinkers has come” (p. vii). At that point, the promise was in radically leaning and relying on my Father-Mother God as the source of all comfort, sustenance, and healing, and turning wholeheartedly away from identifying myself as a mortal, material being. I believed with everything in me that nothing would be impossible if I trusted God, and I would have a complete healing. And I did.

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