Grateful for renewed commitment and healings

Michelle Walter

Being brought up in Christian Science was the greatest gift, though there were times when I didn’t fully appreciate it.

As a young adult I strayed from the teachings of Christian Science, but was always lovingly welcomed at any branch Church of Christ, Scientist, I visited.

I had been attending a local branch church regularly for five years, when God opened many doors that enabled my sixteen-year-old daughter and me to move from Indianapolis to New York City for her career opportunities. God’s guidance was crucial to every detail of the entire transition, and we both felt that the greatest blessing was my completion of Christian Science class instruction during our first summer in our new city.

Recently, I have committed to a greater depth of study of and obedience to Christian Science. I’m discovering an invigorated hunger and appreciation for the “pearl of great price” (Matthew 13:46), and I offer this testimony in humble gratitude.

I’d had a growth on my chest for months, and had prayed about it off and on. One partial statement from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy I prayed with was “… nothing inharmonious can enter being, for Life is God” (p. 228).

At one point, a dear friend shared a printed talk on Christian Science, and I was deeply cherishing the thoughts and ideas in the talk. I soon realized that the growth on my chest was gone, and fresh skin had appeared in its place. I knew it was because my thought had been opened to Christ’s touch and I had realized that the growth had never been part of me; the suggestion that I could be separated from God, divine Love, was an illusion, a lie about my spiritual identity.

I also had a healing of chronic constipation that, for decades, I had mistakenly believed was a permanent part of my identity.

Serving in multiple positions in my branch church has become a joy-filled privilege. What could be more important than supporting Church—which is defined in the Glossary of Science and Health as “the structure of Truth and Love”? (p. 583). I am immeasurably grateful for this renewed desire to spend consecrated time with God. I am so thankful for this clear evidence of God’s intimate presence, which is as close as my breath.

Michelle Walter
Indianapolis, Indiana, US

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