Testimony of Healing December 15, 2025 Issue

Singing with joy in a choir

Kathryn Lee Bazan

I am both a lifelong Christian Scientist and a singer, and one of the most precious healings of my life came when I was performing with a small choral group made up of Christian Scientists. That year, I was honored to sing a solo during the Christmas concert; in addition, I was thrilled that we would be singing my favorite Christmas carol, “O Holy Night.” As a soprano, I loved the opportunity to soar upward on those gorgeous, ringing notes! 

Then, the day before our last and largest concert of the season, the weather suddenly turned from the bright crispness of a late California autumn to the frigid cold that would be typical of a day deep in winter. From the time I was a small child, when sudden temperature changes occurred, I would often develop a sore throat or a cold and lose my voice. Before I went to bed that night, I felt a slight trepidation that this might occur again. At 2 a.m., I awoke to find that I had no voice at all. I panicked. I was supposed to sing like a lark in about 16 hours.

I remembered that, in the past, it had typically taken three days for me to recover enough to speak and several additional days for me to be able to sing. Fear engulfed me. How could I let down my fellow singers, who had practiced for this concert for months? What could I do? As I lay in the dark, I remembered my mom saying to me in the face of earlier challenges, “Stay calm. You know what to do: Pray.”

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