Testimony of Healing May 13, 2019 Issue

Healed while hiking Mount Kilimanjaro

Christiane Heer

In August 2010, I hiked to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and experienced a wonderful healing.

A few hours before we reached our second camp, I suddenly felt an acute abdominal pain. This was very alarming and distressing to me! Some friends and I had organized this trip together—three weeks in Tanzania, starting with seven days of hiking Kilimanjaro—and this was just the second day. At that moment I had no idea how I could reach the next camp.

My friends urged me to take some medication. I felt a huge responsibility to not ruin the trip for them and didn’t want to seem stubborn by refusing their help. So I took one of the pills they offered, hoping it would alleviate their fears for me. Immediately I felt worse. I doubled over and couldn’t take a single step. Whenever I tried to sit up, I suffered a lot of pain. I could not keep food or drink down, and slowly my strength seemed to drain away. The friend who had given me the medicine told me later that he had meant to give me a different pill. But, in a way, this wrong pill helped to shift me completely back to my usual approach to dealing with sickness—which is through prayer according to the teachings of Christian Science.

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Testimony of Healing

Desire to drink alcohol disappears