Testimony of Healing July 10, 2017 Issue

Prayer brings unexpected recovery

Sandra Crutchfield

Christian Science has been my way of life and my only means of healing for over forty years. I was introduced to this Science as a child by a loving sister-in-law, whose prayers healed me of chronic earaches, deafness, grief, a discordant relationship with my mother, fear of separation, and bullying by kids at school. Although I wasn’t told that these were Christian Science healings until I was in college, as a child I certainly experienced the harmonizing effect of Christianly scientific prayer.

I started knowingly relying on Christian Science for physical healing in my early twenties. As I began studying the Bible, along with Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, I found I could prove the healing power of Christian Science for myself. Although this prayer-based healing was always effective insofar as I practiced it, I still wasn’t willing to trust God completely with my health.

After I married, I became very ill with a diseased gallbladder. Eating caused me pain, so I mostly avoided food for about a month and became malnourished. When I did eat, the pain was so severe that I couldn’t pray. My husband, who was not a Christian Scientist, was understandably afraid for me and finally persuaded me to go to the emergency room.

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