from our Healing Thoughts magazine
Attention Deficit Syndrome Healed
Stomach Cancer Healed
Arthritis Healed
Bad Character Healed
Broken Back Healed
Diabetes Healed
Attention Deficit Syndrome Healed
Our daughter was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Syndrome. School authorities told us that constant medication might help with the symptoms, but there was no cure.
We asked a practitioner from Plainfield Church for prayerful help. God’s tender, constant care was abundantly shown to us. It was pointed out that the child was badly spoiled, seldom obeyed when spoken to, and expressed no love to anyone. This error had opened the door for this affliction. We were asked if we were willing to help her express the Godlike qualities of obedience and love, at all times. We agreed to do so. We began to “see her as God’s child, made in His image and likeness, obedient to the Mind that made her.” She had become quite headstrong, and used to doing things in her own time. The practitioner told us to establish principle in our home, to tell her that we were doing our best to obey God and she must, too.
I needed to learn to handle the false beliefs of motherhood. I declared that God created her, and she belonged to Him. Once I was able to see that God made her, I could separate the error from her, and love her as a child of God. A great deal of love, patience and kindness was shown to us by the practitioner.
This year, she was placed in a regular classroom, at our insistence. The Learning Specialist and psychologist told us that she would never be able to keep up with the other students. But, the practitioner prayed and we did our best to apply the truths the practitioner was teaching us. It is with tears in my eyes that I tell about her report card at the end of this year. She received A- in reading, all B’s and one C+ in Social Studies. She is now a calm, poised and loving girl.
It’s wonderful to see the healing of something that so many authorities told us was impossible. Truly, with God all things are possible.
J.S.
I had been listed in the Christian Science Journal as a practitioner for 20 years when I fell ill with cancer of the stomach. I had
help from two teachers and several practitioners over a period of time and only grew worse. Finally my husband, who is not a
Christian Scientist, called in a doctor who diagnosed the case as stomach cancer in an advanced stage. I had not eaten a
normal meal for many months and by bowels had not moved for a month. I was bedridden.At this point, my daughter begged me to call a practitioner from Plainfield Church who had had great success in healing. This I
did reluctantly, fearful that even she would be unable to help me.The practitioner met me with great love, but also suggested, after talking with me, that I needed to make some changes in my
life, as I had been grossly imposed upon by family members as well as patients. I was willing to do anything to be healed.The work began, and at once the pain became less and less until it disappeared entirely. I began to eat and retain my food. Ten
days after the treatment started, my bowels moved normally and there was no trace of the cancer at all. The imposition of
family and patients also stopped as I refused to allow it.This healing took place ten years ago and I have had no return of the disease.
H. K.
The verse, “Take my feet, and let them be swift and beautiful for Thee,” from Hymn No. 324, reminds me of a recent healing of arthritis I would like to share.
Late in November, many changes in my life, at home, on the job, and in my church affiliation came about. At the same time my movement became very painful. I couldn’t move freely. One of my legs was so swollen I couldn’t stand on it. The doctors diagnosed this problem as a severe form of arthritis.
I was so grateful to call a Plainfield practitioner. The practitioner reminded me that my first responsibility was to know God better, and I was free to learn more about Him without pressure or interference. This helped me to let the healing unfold.
I was given pages 390-393 in Science and Health to read each day, and this was a great help in keeping me focused. I worked with the practitioner each day, and soon I was able to stand up freely, because I was being taught to stand for Truth. Movement became easier, because I was learning to walk with Love and Principle.
Each day action felt more normal, and I found my thought turning to a deeper contemplation of spiritual things. My life has been enriched and I am now able to move freely, and painlessly.
I am so grateful. The daily Bible Lessons, ‘Healing Thoughts,’ and the Newsletter, as well as the privilege of being a member of the Plainfield Church, and praying for its activities, have all helped to support me on my walk forward!
K.A.
When our son was a small child, he was abnormally shy and introverted, and also very stubborn and willful. He was an unhappy child, who rarely ever smiled or laughed. I was feeling hopeless, because nothing I tried helped the situation. So I asked for help in Christian Science from the Teacher in Plainfield Church. The Teacher told me to see him as God’s loving, obedient child, who wanted to do right. She also said we needed to insist that he obey, because if he is unwilling to obey his parents, he certainly would not obey God. She agreed to pray for us.
We noticed a change right away. He began to be more obedient and helpful, doing what we asked with less arguing each day. In working closely with the Teacher, I found there were some things I had to learn, too. I had to be consistent in disciplining him, and not be concerned with whether or not he liked me. Parents often are more concerned with their children liking them, than in doing what in our hearts we know the child needs. I saw in my own experience, that helping children learn to obey will get more love and respect from them, than being too easy on them.
The complete healing took several weeks. During this time the child became happy, confident, and loving, a totally different person. He became willing, and would even help without being asked. This complete transformation could not have been accomplished except through God and Christian Science. If we had tried psychology or psychiatry, there would have been years of therapy, and the results could never have been this wonderful and complete. He is now twenty years old, and this healing has been permanent.
I am deeply grateful to the Teacher who worked daily with me during this time, teaching us, healing us, and helping us to hear God’s direction. And I am very grateful to God and to Mary Baker Eddy for giving us this very practical Christian Science.
C.C.
I had just become interested in Christian Science when I fell backwards in a public place, through a carelessly opened trap door, down a full flight of stairs into a cellar, where I hit my head upon the cement floor. I was unconscious. My granddaughter, who was with me, called a Christian Science practitioner from the Plainfield Church. An ambulance had been called by the manager of the building and I was taken to a hospital, unconscious. The practitioner came to the hospital at once and treated me, speaking the Truth aloud. I regained consciousness at once. A doctor who examined me said I had serious internal injuries and broken bones. I stayed in the hospital for six days where they observed me, but gave me no medicine, as I had no pain. I talked Christian Science to the doctors and nurses who entered my room, and was very cheery. They all said it made them feel so good to come in and see me. At the end of seven days before they were to release me, they took x-rays of my back, which they couldn’t do before, due to the serious nature of the injuries. They found that my back had been broken, and the hospital went into an uproar. The specialist, who had seen me every day and to whom I had talked Science, was called. He said, “Let her go home. She’s all right. Christian Science has healed her.” I went home, and three weeks later won a grandmother’s bowling trophy. I was 72 years old at the time.
I am so grateful to God, to our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, and to the practitioner who healed me.
P.E.
I was diagnosed as having diabetes. My fellow employees at work noticed that I constantly had a glass of water on my desk and was losing weight rapidly. My wife and I had just become interested in Christian Science and decided to try it instead of becoming dependent on insulin. We called a practitioner from the Plainfield Church, who recommended that we study certain passages from the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy.
One passage was especially helpful from page 399. "No gastric gas accumulates, not a secretion nor combination can operate, apart from the action of mortal thought, alias mortal mind."
I thought, if not a secretion can operate independently in the body, I didn't have to tolerate the belief that the pancreas was not secreting properly. The practitioner worked faithfully with me, and I had many wonderful revelations of Truth. I found my anxiety about the disease being replaced by an enthusiastic desire to know more about God and the wonderful religion that Mary Baker Eddy founded.
In six weeks I was completely healed, and there has been no return of the condition.
I can never be grateful enough for God's goodness, for our Leader, and the practitioner who stayed with me until I saw the unreality of evil.
A.S.
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