Testimony of Healing January 12, 2015 Issue

No more drinking, smoking, and drugs

Gerry Sheridan Diamond

My first experience with Christian Science was when a friend gave me the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. It took me a while, but I read the book cover to cover. I felt in my heart that everything it said was true. But I also thought I would never join a church because I could never live like “those people.”

I was newly graduated from college, and I drank, smoked, and took recreational drugs, as did my friends. So I thought I would just study Science on my own. But then the person who gave me the book told me about the weekly Bible Lesson in the Christian Science Quarterly, and I began reading it regularly, noticing that my day was different—more inspired—when I read it.

I talked to no one about it. About nine months after I’d been given that copy of Science and Health, I went to a Christian Science lecture, which included a healing of a young woman who sounded a lot like me. I was moved by the lecture—and the thought came that maybe I could change. I went home, sat on the edge of my bed, and earnestly prayed, “Dear God, how can I possibly change?” And right away there was an answer to my prayer: “You don’t have to do this anymore.”

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