Three life-changing healings from reading Science and Health

There are three testimonies I will mention. First, as a new Christian Scientist 50 years ago, I was desperate to find answers to life and some foundation for existence. When I found Science and Health, I read the chapter on prayer repeatedly – so many times. It gave me the base to go on, to find structure in my life.

Another healing came from reading the chapter on marriage. I was in a place where I thought marriage had to be this huge romantic thing. That mindset was leading me to go from one relationship to the next to always stay on a romantic high. I read “Marriage” until it finally became clear what was important and true about marriage. That led to the discovery that my obvious partner was a good friend. That was 46 years ago and we are still enjoying our life together.

A third healing: At one point, I was confronted with employees who wanted to take over my business and told me I was too old to run it. I read the chapter “Science of Being.” In reading that and in deep communion with God I saw the vision of myself as the temple in this statement: “The chief stones in the temple of Christian Science are to be found in the following postulates: that Life is God, good, and not evil; that Soul is sinless, not to be found in the body; that Spirit is not, and cannot be, materialized; that Life is not subject to death; that the spiritual real man has no birth, no material life, and no death” (Science and Health 288:20). I experienced a complete sense of renewal and went on for many more years of active business.