Testimony of Healing December 29, 2025 Issue

Prayer prepares the way for a harmonious birth

Diane Allison

The same day we got the wonderful news that we were expecting our second child, my husband was fired from his job. Although our joy about the child never waned, our finances began to look bleaker by the day. His job interviews were not going well. I was very unhappy in my own job, but was now afraid to quit.

One night, I woke up bleeding heavily. “Am I having a miscarriage?” I wondered. “Oh, please, no!” At the same time, vivid in my thought was this phrase from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: “Our wine the inspiration of Love . . .” (p. 35). This is a reference to Jesus’ last meal with his disciples on the night before his crucifixion, when he told them that the wine in his cup symbolized his blood (see Matthew 26:28). This made me wonder: If blood could symbolize the inspiration of divine Love, how could it ever be depleted? Or be a sign of harm? I realized that the inspiration of Love is always here, always replenishing.

I called a dear friend, a Christian Science practitioner, and asked her to pray for me. She did and, like the woman in the Bible who touched Christ Jesus’ garment, I felt the bleeding stanch immediately (see Mark 5:25–34), and I felt the peace and wholeness of the Christ.

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