Testimony of Healing March 11, 2013 Issue

Freedom from stomach distress

Hélène Brown

This was originally written in French and published in The Herald of Christian Science.

My teenage daughter and I were vacationing in a country where I did not know anyone. One night after dinner, I began experiencing a severe stomachache. That country had the reputation of having very unhealthy water, and I had been careful not to drink it. But we were staying at a hotel with a restaurant and all meals were included. I had been overeating, which gave me, in addition to the physical pain, a strong sense of guilt and regret. I did not know how to use the phone to call out of the country, so I was not able to call a Christian Science practitioner for help, which I would have done if I had been at home. In the past, Christian Science practitioners had helped me find healing of all sorts of challenges.

The pain was not lessening, so I thought that if I drank some bottled sparkling water, the discomfort would subside a bit, but that did not help at all. I then asked my daughter to pray with me. She was 19 at the time, and we were used to praying together as a family. All of a sudden, my daughter heard me fall onto the bathroom floor, unable to move, sit, or stand. The pain was getting worse, and I turned to God for help with all my strength.

Sometime before my trip, a fellow member at my Christian Science church had shared a healing he had, explaining that the thought had come to him not only to think about the truths taught by Christian Science, but also to voice them aloud. So I started declaring aloud, together with my daughter, all that I could remember at that moment about God and God’s man. This was not a recipe or a list of magical formulas.

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