Testimony of Healing December 16, 2013 Issue

Abscessed tooth healed

Traci Shepard

Earlier this year, one of my teeth became sensitive over a period of a few days. It then became quite painful, with swelling in the area around it. As my prior career for over 15 years was in dentistry, I recognized the signs of an abscessed tooth.

At this time my family was also going through financial challenges, and as I didn’t have dental insurance, I was reluctant to see a dentist about the situation. Yet, for a time I had been attending Christian Science church services with my husband, and also attending a weekly Bible Lesson discussion group where we talked about how we applied the Lesson to church and our lives. So my choice was to address the situation through Christian Science treatment. I also called a Christian Science practitioner to help me.

I wanted to stay home from work to focus on prayer, but didn’t want to think of myself as sick. The practitioner and I decided I could have a “prayer day” instead of a sick day—it would be a day dedicated to healing. This decision reminded me that when my children were young, I would have a “mommy and me” day with each of them to spend time together. So this became a day to spend with my true parent: a “God and me” day to spend in thought, prayer, praise, and listening to God.

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