Testimony of Healing January 12, 2015 Issue

Healing for a friend

Stephanie Peek

Months before I joined The Mother Church and a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, I gave up drinking wine. I saw that I could turn to God as my source of joy and vivacity in social settings instead of alcohol. I knew that I could fully depend on Spirit, not matter, for whatever I needed. While I was grateful for this healing, I never imagined that it would one day help a fellow artist and new acquaintance.

Several years later, while I was living in Italy as a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome, I was a dinner guest at the home of a new friend, an Italian photographer who loved to cook. For most Italians, food and wine are shared as a celebration of man’s cultivation of the earth. And so when I refused the wine, I risked insulting my host.

I found it necessary to explain—in broken Italian—the reasons for my abstinence. I tried to explain that any change in consciousness that wine produces would prevent me from listening to God’s guidance. I briefly shared a healing I’d had of total deafness in one ear and partial deafness in the other through prayerful listening to God. This healing had been a turning point in my progress toward becoming a dedicated student of Christian Science and joining The Mother Church.

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