Testimony of Healing May 30, 2011 Issue

Headaches healed, and a complete transformation of thought

Jaime Beauchamp

Ever since I was a teenager I had suffered from “cluster headaches” and for many years sought a cure for it. The best doctors, the finest headache clinics, the strongest medications, had all failed to provide me with relief. So had other “alternative” cures. The thought “I don’t deserve this” surfaced every time I was afflicted by new attacks. In despair I came to the conclusion that the most a loving God could ever do was commiserate with me. I felt completely hopeless in this matter. 

I was introduced to Christian Science through a friend who gave me a copy of Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health. As I began to read, I was entirely taken by it, gleaning ideas about God, man as His image and likeness, and the perfect nature of His creation. 

But as I read, there was one important point that was very difficult for me to accept. In fact, I wholly resisted it. I just couldn’t bring myself to believe in divine healing. So I wrestled with this point until I finished the book (conveniently skipping the last chapter called “Fruitage,” comprised of testimonies from people who were healed simply by reading the same book). But even as I was struggling with the issue of whether healing was even possible, I was quickened by everything else that I was reading. For example, I was learning that God was divine Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, and Love. 

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