Testimony of Healing August 10, 2015 Issue

Gratitude for three healings

Rachel F. Henderson

When I read an article on JSH-Online that shared the healing of a young girl (see Kitty Charshee, “The Word made practical,” June 2, 1956, Sentinel), I noticed a recent comment by Portia Nelson posted below it. Now an adult, she wrote that she was the girl who had been healed, and that she had forgotten the illness when a friend reminded her of it a few years afterward; but, she said, “I remembered how very much I felt God’s love expressed to me ….”

I was so touched by this comment, which reminded me that I don’t recall fear or suffering during the few times I was ill as a child because I, too, had been so completely healed. I just have warm memories of being cared for through prayer in Christian Science and of having very quick healings. This then reminded me of my own children, and how they have also experienced quick healings.

One example is when my oldest daughter was around three. We went to play outside, and after a short while she came up to me and had very obviously broken out in a case of measles. The look of it filled me with fear, but as a lifelong Christian Scientist I turned immediately to God to regain my calm. I knew from experience that Christian Science heals quickly and effectively.

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