How I Found Christian Science September 16, 2013 ISSUE

Healing all along the way

Marge Thornton

Although my family were not Christian Scientists, I attended a Christian Science Sunday School with a neighbor when I was six and seven. However, after my mother passed on, I was enrolled in a Methodist Sunday School. I am most grateful that in both Sunday schools, I was led to love and trust God. Because my dad traveled a lot in his work and I no longer had my mother, I remember thinking, “Well, God, You will just have to be my Mother and Father!” This was a cherished conviction of mine and very comforting as I grew up.

I was blessed to be reintroduced to Christian Science during a drive back to college my sophomore year. A friend handed me a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy saying, “You might be interested in this.” As I read it, I was “blown away” by the chapter on prayer and much that I read.

During that semester I became very ill. I had trouble breathing and was always tired. After I was treated with many different medicines at the infirmary and was no better, I was told the school planned to send me home.

At this point, a Christian Science friend in the dorm offered to make an appointment for me with a Christian Science practitioner and assured me it did not matter that I was not a Christian Scientist. It took a great deal of effort to walk to the practitioner’s apartment, but I kept that appointment. I totally agreed with all that the practitioner said to me. At one point she said with authority, “You can wake up right now.”

Suddenly I felt totally at one with God. All was harmony, beauty, and peace, and I was instantaneously healed. You can imagine my joy as I was able to run back to the dorm! Later on in my life, when a job required a chest X-ray for tuberculosis, I was told by doctors that they saw scar tissue, indicating a healing.

Shortly after, through my own prayerful study, I was healed of a cold—a condition we often had in our family and one that required time in bed and many days of convalescence. On this occasion, the symptoms came on a Saturday, and that night I was supposed to go with a date to a dance. I studied and absorbed the truths in Science and Health all day, and got ready with confidence as the symptoms lessened. By the time I met my date, the symptoms had all faded away, and I had a happy evening. I was “solidly” a Christian Scientist!

In my over 60 years of studying Christian Science, I’ve had many healings. I decided to have my children at home, and all three of them were born harmoniously and were raised in Christian Science. Knowing God is my, and the children’s, Father-Mother was a rock to me when my husband passed on at an early age and I had to raise the children alone. Knowing the Truth explained by Christian Science continues to bring me health, peace, and joy. My heart overflows with deep gratitude to Mary Baker Eddy for her discovery of the true mission and meaning of Christ Jesus’ life!

About the author

Marge Thornton lives in Tempe, Arizona.

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