Testimony of Healing August 20, 2018 Issue

A college student finds healing

Vanessa Béjar

It was my first semester in college, in an unfamiliar country almost four thousand miles away from home. Around the third week of school, I started having stomach pain. I grew up attending the Christian Science Sunday School and have had many healings through prayer. So when I began feeling pain, I knew I could pray and expect healing this time, too.

I called my parents, and they contacted a Christian Science practitioner who has helped me since childhood. Although I wasn’t able to be in touch with her myself, they passed along the inspiration she shared, and I knew she was praying for me. One of the ideas that I was praying with was from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. It’s a passage that says, “In Science man is the offspring of Spirit” (p. 63). It was reassuring to remember that my identity is spiritual, so pain could not be part of me.

A few days passed, and though I continued praying and having help from the practitioner, I was still in pain. One day I found myself thinking, I can’t have a healing. I’d been remembering all the healings I’d had in the past, and had realized that all these healings had occurred when I was with my parents at home. I thought that maybe this time I couldn’t be healed because my dad was not there being strong for me. Maybe I couldn’t be healed because my mom was not there to hug me and comfort me. Maybe I couldn’t be healed because the practitioner was not with me or on the phone with me.

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