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5 year old Christi healed
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When I was five years old, my mother, brother and I fell ill for several weeks, and the doctor said that we kids needed to get our tonsils out. Mom regularly took us to the Christian Science Sunday School, but my dad was not a Christian Scientist, so the decision was made to do the surgery.
\nThe doctors promised us as much ice cream as we could eat after the operation. But when I woke up, I was experiencing more pain than I had ever felt before\u2014more than I had dreamed anyone could ever feel. They brought the ice cream, but I was frightened to even swallow, much less to put food in my mouth first. I refused to even drink water. Then I passed out from the pain.
\nThat was the experience from my point of view. My mom, of course, was watching and was appalled to see both her children suffering so.
\nWhen I got older, she told me that it had seemed easier to just use medicine every time we were sick, because that\u2019s what my dad used, and she didn\u2019t feel confident in knowing how to pray for her children. But at that moment, seeing what we were going through, she determined she would never put us through such a thing again\u2014from then on, she would rely on Christian Science.
\nA couple of days after we got home from the hospital, I came down with the mumps, which I had picked up in the children\u2019s ward. My mom started praying, but felt overwhelmed.
\nAs mom told me the story years later, she was working hard to keep my brother away from me, because the mumps were supposed to be a very contagious disease. But she had to leave my room to fetch something, and when she got back, he was standing beside me, drinking from my glass of water.
\nJust then the phone rang. In despair she went to answer it, and found it was my Sunday School teacher, who happened to be a Christian Science practitioner. This kind lady was calling because it had been a month and a half since we had come to class, and she wanted to make sure everything was OK.
\nMy mom broke into tears, telling her the whole, sad story of us all being sick and we kids having surgery, and now, just when we got home, I had come down with the mumps and my brother had just drunk out of my glass and he was going to get them, too.
\nThat dear, sweet lady listened to the whole thing with a Christly thought and said, \u201cChristi doesn\u2019t have the mumps and Carey\u2019s not going to get them.\u201d
\nAnd that was that. I was healed and my brother never got sick.
\nI am very grateful for this healing. It brought the practice of Christian Science into our home. Witnessing that instantaneous healing gave my mom the confidence she needed that she could trust her children to God.
\nBefore this, whenever I felt ill, Mom gave me a tablespoon of terrible-tasting medicine and put me to bed. I remember just lying there, feeling sick, and wishing I didn\u2019t feel sick.
\nBut after this healing, I always found immediate help. If I told mom I didn\u2019t feel well, she would become very calm and quiet, put me someplace comfortable, and start talking to me about God. She would say simple things that a child could understand, such as: God is good, and He couldn\u2019t make anything bad. And if He couldn\u2019t make anything bad, then I couldn\u2019t have anything bad. But she never spoke in a rote way. The words were different every time, but felt natural and suited to the situation. Years later, she told me that she would simply ask God what to say, and the ideas would just pour in. I remember those ideas feeling like cold water in a hot desert, and I always immediately felt better.
\nThe trust in relying on God that I gained from those healings carried over into my adult life, and have led to more healings than I can count. For this I am very grateful.

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Christi Lupher

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Austin, Tx

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One morning I was specifically praying about “more soul, less body.” The lesson that week was about Soul and Body, perfect for what I needed to work on. The golden text and responsive reading set my thought straight by declaring man as God-made, never alone without God, and guided and guarded by God. God believes in us, is rooting for us and is on our side always. Instructions to give gratitude, rejoice and share joy were also gleaned from those opening citations.

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I related God’s omnipresent Love to be so big that it fills every nook and cranny. Divine Love is in my pocket. He is with my spouse while he is at work as well as being home with me. He is under my child’s helmet as she rides her bicycle. He is closer to my infant than I am when I hold him. My safety is holding me close in great, big arms of love! Man can never fallout of God’s care.
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My prayers continued with expressing the right we have to be free as beloved children of God. That expressing gratitude, spreading joy and loving our neighbors as ourselves are prayer in action.\u00a0Shutting the door to any\u00a0thought unlike good keeps our consciousness tuned to good therefore gaining more understanding and ready to receive more blessings.
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I had just finished emailing this treatment when I heard a scream downstairs. My thought was pretty in-tune with God’s goodness so I silently declared that all was well. I didn’t feel like I was needed downstairs since Tyson, my husband,\u00a0 was with Eevy (the screamer).
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After a few minutes I heard a sniffling child coming up the stairs. Tyson was holding Eevy who had calmed down but was shirtless with red marks on her upper body. Tyson began telling me the story behind the scream. Eevy had pulled a much desired bag of marshmallows off the counter and with it came Tyson’s mug of fresh brewed coffee. I told Tyson I didn’t need to hear anymore of the story and sat down with Eevy. I told her all the truths I had just emailed to another patient.

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God is with you always. He’s got you wrapped up so tight in His big arms of love that nothing can get in between God and you. (Not even coffee!)

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Eevy was concerned that she smelled like coffee, so I suggested to her that she could take a bath. She likes baths. I anticipated the bath would distract her from her tender skin. I immediately deflected the suggestion that water hitting her skin could be painful. I also refuse to look at the seeming burns. As soon as Eevy was in the bath, she forgot all about the coffee incident. The joy of bathing and playing with her toys completely replaced the pain she felt and the smell of the coffee.\u00a0 When she declared herself clean, I took her out, toweled her off and when I was putting a fresh shirt on I noticed there were no redness or any evidence of a burn.

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“Glory to God!” I shouted. We are so thankful \"\ud83d\ude42\"

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So whatever blesses one, blesses all!

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Shared with Love.
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Davya Flaharty

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While visiting my boyfriend\u2019s home as a teenager, his grandmother had always reminded me to be careful going up and down the stair case off the kitchen as there had been an incident years before of a serious fall of a household member. Before I was alerted to this, we had had a conversation about church and my faith. She told me her mother had touched upon and studied Christian Science at one point. One weekend while stepping down that stair case, I seemed to slip and lose footing, down I went bumping my tail bone several times.\u00a0 As soon as this occurred, I heard his grandmother running from the other end of the house to me and abruptly said;

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\u201cyou better know what you are supposed to know.\u201d

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She was referring to Truths taught in Christian Science. One example is:

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“There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter.\u00a0 All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All in all.\u00a0 Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.\u00a0 Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual.”\u00a0 page 468 of Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

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Her comment jarred my thought not to accept the fall and claim my freedom. I was able to get up and go about normal activity without fear or continued pain. I was so grateful.\u00a0 \u201cFor the Word of God is quick and powerful.\u201d

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Deb Maleck

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\n", "content_text": " \nWhile visiting my boyfriend\u2019s home as a teenager, his grandmother had always reminded me to be careful going up and down the stair case off the kitchen as there had been an incident years before of a serious fall of a household member. Before I was alerted to this, we had had a conversation about church and my faith. She told me her mother had touched upon and studied Christian Science at one point. One weekend while stepping down that stair case, I seemed to slip and lose footing, down I went bumping my tail bone several times.\u00a0 As soon as this occurred, I heard his grandmother running from the other end of the house to me and abruptly said;\n\u201cyou better know what you are supposed to know.\u201d\nShe was referring to Truths taught in Christian Science. One example is:\n“There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter.\u00a0 All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All in all.\u00a0 Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.\u00a0 Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual.”\u00a0 page 468 of Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.\nHer comment jarred my thought not to accept the fall and claim my freedom. I was able to get up and go about normal activity without fear or continued pain. I was so grateful.\u00a0 \u201cFor the Word of God is quick and powerful.\u201d\nDeb Maleck", "date_published": "2020-10-30T10:45:52-07:00", "date_modified": "2020-10-18T13:13:20-07:00", "authors": [ { "name": "Christian Science Denton webmaster", "url": "https://christiansciencedenton.com/author/karenmcmullen/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4e34377e03473dacda34930ad3877b0318f3cf310e4a9eab9165acc768e7a219?s=512&d=mm&r=g" } ], "author": { "name": "Christian Science Denton webmaster", "url": "https://christiansciencedenton.com/author/karenmcmullen/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4e34377e03473dacda34930ad3877b0318f3cf310e4a9eab9165acc768e7a219?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://i0.wp.com/christiansciencedenton.com/files/2020/10/20190609_113553-scaled-e1603051794744.jpg?fit=864%2C2080&ssl=1", "tags": [ "childhood healings", "Healings" ] }, { "id": "https://christiansciencedenton.com/?p=526", "url": "https://christiansciencedenton.com/2020/08/15/medications-no-longer-necessary/", "title": "Medications no longer necessary", "content_html": "

Early in the 2000\u2019s my wife and I were directed to open our home and adopt! Going through the process with the system, While filling out the application and having home visits – the question of religion was raised.\u00a0 Asked which denomination we followed, of course, we said Christian Science! There seemed to be a moment of hesitation with our social worker, Because the children were wards of the State of Texas, they had the requirement of the children seeing doctors on a regular basis. We assured them that the children would be taken in for regular check ups as the state required until the adoption was finalized. As wards of the State of Texas, both were diagnosed with material illnesses, so there were medications they were taking. Although they had given us a supply of medications, we started working on their healing through prayer. The adoption was finalized during the Memorial Day holiday, placement happened that weekend!\u00a0 When the children arrived and the social worker, we reassured the children that our house was the house of God!\u00a0 During our first week we started working with the children through prayer, to free them from the thought of their need for the medications they have been taking while in foster care. Of course, we had them attending Christian Science Sunday School and each had a copy of The Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.\u00a0 Each morning my wife would work with them and in the evenings when I was home, I would work with them! Working with them in the understanding of their perfection as God\u2019s perfect child! After they were with us two months, the use of all medication had ceased with no signs of the so called problems the doctors had prescribed the medications for.\u00a0 God\u2019s love and the healing power of prayer along with seeing their perfection healed them of their false sense and moved them into their true reality!

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Joseph with his Grand daughter
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My oldest daughter, Patty, struggled with hearing loss in one of her ears when she was\u00a0 about 5 or 6 years old. Prayerful support was given by a Christian Science Practitioner.\u00a0 A Christian Science Practitioner is an individual who dedicates their time to healing prayer for others.\u00a0 Practitioners are available to pray with anyone seeking healing through the study of Christian Science.

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In the quiet hours of early morning my daughter was laying next to me as I was still asleep, she woke me up asking me,

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\u201cWhat do you want?\u201d

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She thought I called her name. I ,of course, reassured her to go back to sleep.

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\u201cIt wasn\u2019t me,\u201d I said, thinking\u00a0 she was probably dreaming.

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Once again she woke with:\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cWhat do you want, mommy?\u201d

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Again, I told her I did not call her. She replied,

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\u201cBut I heard my name being called\u201d she said.

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I hugged her and told her: \u201cGo back to sleep.\u201d

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For the 3rd time she woke me,

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\u201cThere it is again, I know you called me!\u201d

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I simply comforted her and said,\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cIt must have been God; it wasn\u2019t me.\u201d

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When telling my mother of this occurrence, she reminded me of the story of Samuel in the Bible, when God called him 3 times. ( I Sam: 3)\u00a0 I talked about this Bible story with Patty, she said,

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\u201cIf I can hear God, then I can hear!”\u00a0 The healing was complete.

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-Deb Maleck

\n", "content_text": " \nMy oldest daughter, Patty, struggled with hearing loss in one of her ears when she was\u00a0 about 5 or 6 years old. Prayerful support was given by a Christian Science Practitioner.\u00a0 A Christian Science Practitioner is an individual who dedicates their time to healing prayer for others.\u00a0 Practitioners are available to pray with anyone seeking healing through the study of Christian Science.\nIn the quiet hours of early morning my daughter was laying next to me as I was still asleep, she woke me up asking me,\n\u201cWhat do you want?\u201d\nShe thought I called her name. I ,of course, reassured her to go back to sleep.\n\u201cIt wasn\u2019t me,\u201d I said, thinking\u00a0 she was probably dreaming.\nOnce again she woke with:\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cWhat do you want, mommy?\u201d\nAgain, I told her I did not call her. She replied,\n\u201cBut I heard my name being called\u201d she said.\nI hugged her and told her: \u201cGo back to sleep.\u201d\nFor the 3rd time she woke me,\n\u201cThere it is again, I know you called me!\u201d\nI simply comforted her and said,\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cIt must have been God; it wasn\u2019t me.\u201d\nWhen telling my mother of this occurrence, she reminded me of the story of Samuel in the Bible, when God called him 3 times. ( I Sam: 3)\u00a0 I talked about this Bible story with Patty, she said,\n\u201cIf I can hear God, then I can hear!”\u00a0 The healing was complete.\n-Deb Maleck", "date_published": "2020-05-30T08:56:50-07:00", "date_modified": "2020-04-20T14:58:33-07:00", "authors": [ { "name": "Christian Science Denton webmaster", "url": "https://christiansciencedenton.com/author/karenmcmullen/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4e34377e03473dacda34930ad3877b0318f3cf310e4a9eab9165acc768e7a219?s=512&d=mm&r=g" } ], "author": { "name": "Christian Science Denton webmaster", "url": "https://christiansciencedenton.com/author/karenmcmullen/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4e34377e03473dacda34930ad3877b0318f3cf310e4a9eab9165acc768e7a219?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://i0.wp.com/christiansciencedenton.com/files/2020/04/20191203_175940-scaled.jpg?fit=1920%2C2560&ssl=1", "tags": [ "childhood healings", "Healings" ] }, { "id": "https://christiansciencedenton.com/?p=297", "url": "https://christiansciencedenton.com/2020/01/05/my-cousign-shook-me-awake-his-baby-daughter-could-not-breath-could-i-pray-with-him/", "title": "My cousin shook me awake. His baby daughter could not breath. Could I pray with him?", "content_html": "

I used to send my children up to Cedars Camps, a Christian Science summer church-camp in Missouri. I liked to volunteer in the kitchen staff while my kids were enjoying their experience. Before my children and I made the long drive back to Texas, we spent the weekend with my favorite aunt and some cousins at their house on the Ozarks.

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In the middle of the night, my cousin woke me up.\u00a0 He said his baby daughter (who had been born prematurely) was barely breathing, and asked if I could come and pray with him.\u00a0 I was instantly fully awake and praying.\u00a0 The week at camp full of spiritual inspiration and study had me completely prepared to meet this situation.\u00a0 My Aunt joined us as we all sat at the top of the stairs just at the spot where baby\u2019s mom had sat down in despair. Gathered there closely together we shared ideas and prayed.\u00a0 We started singing hymns.\u00a0 Baby began breathing normally.

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My cousin told me later that he had been very frightened.\u00a0 This had happened before with his little girl and they had rushed her to the hospital. They were told her lungs were weak because they had not fully formed due to her premature birth.\u00a0\u00a0 This night at the lake cabin, we were over an hour from any hospital and we could either pray or the baby may die.\u00a0 \u00a0My cousin chose prayer.\u00a0 I was so grateful that he had come to me and let me be a part of this circle of Love around his little daughter. Together, we proved the power of prayer that night.

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Today that baby girl is a teenager and runs cross country races on her school track team.\u00a0 \u00a0 – Karen McMullen

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The baby in the story is a cross country runner now.
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\n", "content_text": "I used to send my children up to Cedars Camps, a Christian Science summer church-camp in Missouri. I liked to volunteer in the kitchen staff while my kids were enjoying their experience. Before my children and I made the long drive back to Texas, we spent the weekend with my favorite aunt and some cousins at their house on the Ozarks.\nIn the middle of the night, my cousin woke me up.\u00a0 He said his baby daughter (who had been born prematurely) was barely breathing, and asked if I could come and pray with him.\u00a0 I was instantly fully awake and praying.\u00a0 The week at camp full of spiritual inspiration and study had me completely prepared to meet this situation.\u00a0 My Aunt joined us as we all sat at the top of the stairs just at the spot where baby\u2019s mom had sat down in despair. Gathered there closely together we shared ideas and prayed.\u00a0 We started singing hymns.\u00a0 Baby began breathing normally.\nMy cousin told me later that he had been very frightened.\u00a0 This had happened before with his little girl and they had rushed her to the hospital. They were told her lungs were weak because they had not fully formed due to her premature birth.\u00a0\u00a0 This night at the lake cabin, we were over an hour from any hospital and we could either pray or the baby may die.\u00a0 \u00a0My cousin chose prayer.\u00a0 I was so grateful that he had come to me and let me be a part of this circle of Love around his little daughter. Together, we proved the power of prayer that night.\nToday that baby girl is a teenager and runs cross country races on her school track team.\u00a0 \u00a0 – Karen McMullen\nThe baby in the story is a cross country runner now.\n ", "date_published": "2020-01-05T14:19:23-08:00", "date_modified": "2020-01-06T09:35:42-08:00", "authors": [ { "name": "Christian Science Denton webmaster", "url": "https://christiansciencedenton.com/author/karenmcmullen/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4e34377e03473dacda34930ad3877b0318f3cf310e4a9eab9165acc768e7a219?s=512&d=mm&r=g" } ], "author": { "name": "Christian Science Denton webmaster", "url": "https://christiansciencedenton.com/author/karenmcmullen/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4e34377e03473dacda34930ad3877b0318f3cf310e4a9eab9165acc768e7a219?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://i0.wp.com/christiansciencedenton.com/files/2019/10/20191027_083448-e1578332101634.jpg?fit=2628%2C2052&ssl=1", "tags": [ "childhood healings", "Healings" ] }, { "id": "https://christiansciencedenton.com/?p=308", "url": "https://christiansciencedenton.com/2019/11/15/a-young-child-is-healed-when-a-pea-shooter-pierces-her-throat/", "title": "A young child is healed when a pea shooter pierces her throat.", "content_html": "

I am so grateful for this powerful Truth\u00a0 we can turn to in times of emergency.

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Debbie shares her healing experience.
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I experienced many healings as a young child, one in particular stands out. I was stepping down from a bike, with a pea-shooter in my mouth and some how bumped it on the way down causing most of this plastic item to pierce right down my throat, the picture was very alarming. My Mother quickly phoned our Christian Science Practitioner. I was comforted and the bleeding slowed down. It wasn\u2019t too long thereafter, I was able to swallow more normally. A complete healing followed.\u00a0 My mother didn\u2019t feel it necessary to have the throat examined for reassurance. \u201cGod is always a very present help in trouble.\u201d

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Debbie Maleck

\n", "content_text": "I am so grateful for this powerful Truth\u00a0 we can turn to in times of emergency.\nDebbie shares her healing experience.\nI experienced many healings as a young child, one in particular stands out. I was stepping down from a bike, with a pea-shooter in my mouth and some how bumped it on the way down causing most of this plastic item to pierce right down my throat, the picture was very alarming. My Mother quickly phoned our Christian Science Practitioner. I was comforted and the bleeding slowed down. It wasn\u2019t too long thereafter, I was able to swallow more normally. A complete healing followed.\u00a0 My mother didn\u2019t feel it necessary to have the throat examined for reassurance. \u201cGod is always a very present help in trouble.\u201d\nDebbie Maleck", "date_published": "2019-11-15T14:24:09-08:00", "date_modified": "2019-11-02T15:23:43-07:00", "authors": [ { "name": "Christian Science Denton webmaster", "url": "https://christiansciencedenton.com/author/karenmcmullen/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4e34377e03473dacda34930ad3877b0318f3cf310e4a9eab9165acc768e7a219?s=512&d=mm&r=g" } ], "author": { "name": "Christian Science Denton webmaster", "url": "https://christiansciencedenton.com/author/karenmcmullen/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4e34377e03473dacda34930ad3877b0318f3cf310e4a9eab9165acc768e7a219?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "tags": [ "childhood healings", "Healings" ] }, { "id": "https://christiansciencedenton.com/?p=214", "url": "https://christiansciencedenton.com/2019/10/14/issue-of-blood-healed/", "title": "Issue of Blood Healed", "content_html": "
\"Drue's
The author’s daughter, 30 years ago
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When my only child was about 18 months old, I suffered a condition where my monthly feminine cycle did not cease and the continual bleeding made me very weak and unable to care for my child. My husband was not a Christian Scientist and while he did his best to help\u00a0 care for child when he came home from work so that I could have quiet time to pray, his concern for me was very great.

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His fear was such that, even though I was working with a Christian Science practitioner on the matter, it seemed prudent to relent to the medical treatment that he began insisting on, and I checked myself into a local emergency room. I was diagnosed and surgery was prescribed, which I underwent. Because it was not my choice to undergo medical treatment, the practitioner continued working with me throughout to help overcome my substantial fear about being in a medical environment, having been a practicing Christian Scientist my whole life. She helped me see that love was being expressed by my husband and the medical staff and that I was never outside of God\u2019s protective care.

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After the surgery and a few days recuperation in the hospital I was pronounced normal and released. However, within a few days, the same condition returned. The medical procedures had accomplished nothing at all.

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Now I knew that my opportunity was at hand to rely whole-heartedly on Christian Science for real and complete healing. I worked daily, and sometimes hourly, with the practitioner, who lovingly continued to help me see my present perfection and exemption from any abnormal condition of matter. I wrestled with ominous bouts of fear of dying, leaving my young child without a mother. And each time, she helped me see the presence of Love and the impossibility of losing any quality of health, which was God- and not body-ordained. I remember at one point being mentally on my knees in prayer to the Father, completely willing to give up anything and everything to see the Truth that would bring healing \u2014 whether it be my mortal life or even my child. I felt like Isaac out in the wilderness willingly sacrificing his only son in accordance with his best understanding of his duty to God. Of course, Isaac did not have to sacrifice his child, and neither did I.

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My willingness to let go of any pre-conceived notion of the timing and method of healing this condition broke the sickness\u2019 mesmeric hold over me, and the condition disappeared completely almost immediately. The healing took place over 30 years ago and has been permanent. Mary Baker Eddy says that \u201cThe Science of Mind denies the error of sensation in matter, and heals with Truth. Medical science treats disease as though disease were real, therefore right, and attempts to heal it with matter.\u201d (SH 318:22\u201325) Matter is not a healing agent. All true healing is done through Mind, God, uplifting us out of a sense of mortal body to the understanding of our wholly spiritual being.

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Drue McCrackin

\n", "content_text": "The author’s daughter, 30 years ago\nWhen my only child was about 18 months old, I suffered a condition where my monthly feminine cycle did not cease and the continual bleeding made me very weak and unable to care for my child. My husband was not a Christian Scientist and while he did his best to help\u00a0 care for child when he came home from work so that I could have quiet time to pray, his concern for me was very great.\nHis fear was such that, even though I was working with a Christian Science practitioner on the matter, it seemed prudent to relent to the medical treatment that he began insisting on, and I checked myself into a local emergency room. I was diagnosed and surgery was prescribed, which I underwent. Because it was not my choice to undergo medical treatment, the practitioner continued working with me throughout to help overcome my substantial fear about being in a medical environment, having been a practicing Christian Scientist my whole life. She helped me see that love was being expressed by my husband and the medical staff and that I was never outside of God\u2019s protective care.\nAfter the surgery and a few days recuperation in the hospital I was pronounced normal and released. However, within a few days, the same condition returned. The medical procedures had accomplished nothing at all.\nNow I knew that my opportunity was at hand to rely whole-heartedly on Christian Science for real and complete healing. I worked daily, and sometimes hourly, with the practitioner, who lovingly continued to help me see my present perfection and exemption from any abnormal condition of matter. I wrestled with ominous bouts of fear of dying, leaving my young child without a mother. And each time, she helped me see the presence of Love and the impossibility of losing any quality of health, which was God- and not body-ordained. I remember at one point being mentally on my knees in prayer to the Father, completely willing to give up anything and everything to see the Truth that would bring healing \u2014 whether it be my mortal life or even my child. I felt like Isaac out in the wilderness willingly sacrificing his only son in accordance with his best understanding of his duty to God. Of course, Isaac did not have to sacrifice his child, and neither did I.\nMy willingness to let go of any pre-conceived notion of the timing and method of healing this condition broke the sickness\u2019 mesmeric hold over me, and the condition disappeared completely almost immediately. The healing took place over 30 years ago and has been permanent. Mary Baker Eddy says that \u201cThe Science of Mind denies the error of sensation in matter, and heals with Truth. Medical science treats disease as though disease were real, therefore right, and attempts to heal it with matter.\u201d (SH 318:22\u201325) Matter is not a healing agent. All true healing is done through Mind, God, uplifting us out of a sense of mortal body to the understanding of our wholly spiritual being.\nDrue McCrackin", "date_published": "2019-10-14T16:45:07-07:00", "date_modified": "2019-11-02T14:16:25-07:00", "authors": [ { "name": "Christian Science Denton webmaster", "url": "https://christiansciencedenton.com/author/karenmcmullen/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4e34377e03473dacda34930ad3877b0318f3cf310e4a9eab9165acc768e7a219?s=512&d=mm&r=g" } ], "author": { "name": "Christian Science Denton webmaster", "url": "https://christiansciencedenton.com/author/karenmcmullen/", "avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4e34377e03473dacda34930ad3877b0318f3cf310e4a9eab9165acc768e7a219?s=512&d=mm&r=g" }, "image": "https://i0.wp.com/christiansciencedenton.com/files/2019/10/Drues-daughter.jpg?fit=1067%2C1596&ssl=1", "tags": [ "childhood healings", "Healings", "News" ] } ] }