Testimony of Healing April 2, 2018 Issue

Healing throughout my life

Jean Colerider

I have seen the effectiveness of prayer as taught in Christian Science and have experienced healing throughout my life. A testimony in a recent Sentinel brought to mind several things I’d like to share.

In elementary school I was chosen to be one of a group of older students who helped lead games in the schoolyard. One day, after I took the hand of a little girl, she withdrew it, saying, “Ew! What’s that on your hand?” At that time I had warts on both my hands. I was so embarrassed! Until then, the warts hadn’t really bothered me since they didn’t hurt, but when I went home for lunch that day, I cried to my mother.

She calmly told me we would pray about it. I remember her saying, “Those don’t belong to you.” I knew what she meant by that since I regularly attended the Christian Science Sunday School, where I’d learned that God never made anything that wasn’t good and that God loves us. My mom’s confident words were based on this statement in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: “In Science we are children of God; but whatever is of material sense, or mortal, belongs not to His children, for materiality is the inverted image of spirituality” (p. 572). I believed my mother and felt God’s love. In a few days, the warts were all gone, and I never had another one.

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