Healing

[Susieee]

I thoroughly enjoyed reading about a healing someone shared in one of the other threads on this forum, so I thought I should start a new thread specifically about healing.

Healing is such a wonderful result of practicing Christian Science; of knowing more about God and loving our fellow man. Each healing is so unique - there's no formula. But there is a common prevailing spirit to all healing that is really beautiful.

I love reading the accounts of healing in the Bible and Science and Health, in the Christian Science Sentinel and Journal, and watching the videos on this site. If anyone would like to write about their healing here, I would love to read it - thanks! :)

[luv4all]

I'm just becoming acquainted with this website and love it! I love to read the healings, also. I sent it to a few friends and immediately got back a reply. My friend said she was not feeling well today and the website really helped. She said, "How do you know when to drop into my life?" :) It definitely was God directed, I told her.

Have a great day everyone!

[Courtenay]

Hello Susieee... that wouldn't be Susie Rynerson, would it? Remember me?? Courtenay from Melbourne? :D

Great idea to start a thread on healing! I loved reading one contributor's post about his healing of diabetes, so I'd be thrilled to see some more here for people to share and be inspired by. Here are a couple of little ones I'm just remembering, to start us off. They're pretty simple, but they've stayed with me, and I hope they might help someone else. :)

One morning a few years ago, soon after I woke up, I started feeling really sick in the stomach. I quickly shoved aside the temptation to wonder what I might have eaten, and turned straight to God in prayer. The message I got so clearly was just to rejoice in God's day - this line from Isaiah 55:12 came to me: "For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace..." So despite the discomfort, I got up to go about my day.
When I got to the kitchen, my landlady (not a Christian Scientist) greeted me with the news that her friend, who'd stayed the night, was sick with "a throwing-up virus". "Uh-oh," I thought. "We might really have a case here... should I call a practitioner?" But I wanted to do what I could right there, so again I prayed on the spot, and it came to me that this apparent problem was just not in the script for today - so I shouldn't act as if it was. Holding to that, I made my breakfast, even though I felt like I couldn't possibly eat. By the time I'd taken a few bites, all the discomfort was completely gone, and I knew it wasn't coming back... so I thanked God inwardly over and over, before getting dressed and going out with joy!


Then there was this very recent experience: One Saturday evening a few weeks ago, one of my heels started hurting whenever I walked on it. It didn't go away, so I rang a practitioner and we shared a few ideas. (I remember joking, "Maybe it's mortal mind trying to tell me I can't stand on my own two feet!"... we had a laugh about it.) Sure enough, the pain was gone by the time I stood up - but I didn't feel quite sure, and then it started to come back... I rang the practitioner again and she agreed to pray some more, but the problem persisted. I went to church the next morning prepared to listen and take everything in, but by the time it was over, the problem was worse than before. However, we had the TMC Youth Sunday School Workshop in Melbourne that afternoon, so I went along and enjoyed it immensely. Afterwards, I caught up with the practitioner who'd been helping me and told her my heel was still hurting. Her response was blunt: "I'm not listening to error!"
By the time I got home, I realised that the problem had lessened, and it continued to do so until in a short while, it was gone again. Then I woke up the next morning and put my foot down... it hurt AGAIN. I groaned aloud, but then I remembered what the practitioner had said - "I'm not listening to error!" I think that was when I realised just how firm we have to be in our prayers. "Look here," I addressed the problem in thought. "You were never real in the first place - and you're certainly not real now!!" By the time I thought of it again, the pain was gone - and it stayed gone.


Well, I think that's enough of me hogging this thread for now - does anyone else have some stories to share? Hearing about healings, and what people have learned from them, can be such a reassurance and inspiration... so I'd love to read some others!

Much love,
Courtenay ;)

[Susieee]

Hello Courtenay! :) Yes, this is Susie Rynerson. I'm so grateful you came to the workshop in Melbourne. :D

It's good to hear from you on this site, and thanks for sharing those great healings. :)

Much love, Susie

[butterfly]

:)Hey there. I thought I'd like to share a healing that I had when I was in University. I had three months summer break and started going to the gym to fill in time - unfortunately, I became a gym junkie and started going twice a day - every day! Crazy. I lost weight and the wierd thing was people kept telling me how great I looked so I thought I'd better keep going. I stopped eating properly and started to drink lots of carrot juice (until my hands turned orange!). And the more I looked in the mirror and weighed myself twice a day, the more I felt like I was losing sense of who I really was. Anyway, to make a long story short - I came down with chickenpox. My mum who didn't study Christian Science took me to a hospital and the doctor said it was chickenpox. I told my mum I would call a Christian Science practitioner (someone who helps you by praying with you and for you). Without even telling the practitioner anything of my recent gym junkie activities, he told me "You just need to focus on your spiritual identity." So I shifted my focus from a material view of myself to a spiritual view. I started to think about who I really was in terms of being God's child - everything good and spiritual - and within a few days the chickenpox completely cleared up! You can read more about this healing on www.spirituality.com it's an article titled "Beauty from the Inside Out" - but I just wanted to share it here because it was such a great example to me of how healing in Christian Science works - with the help of the practitioner, I took my focus COMPLETELY AWAY from what seemed to be the problem - and focused on what I knew of God - and I was so grateful for the practitioner's wonderful work with me that resulted in complete healing. My mum also was delighted and used to tell everyone about it too - she saw first hand how Christian Science healing works.

[waterbaby]

One healing that I often draw on for inspiration happened a few years ago. I hadn't been to a CS church, or any church,for so many years. I awoke 1 Sunday morning telling my husband that I wanted to go to church and I wanted us to go as a family. He groaned :) but we went and that started many years of teaching/training for the boys in the Sunday School and for us in church.

Shortly after we started going to church, we dropped our son off at the baseball park 1 Sat morning for a quick practice and then game after. We came back an hour or so later to watch the game and our son came running up to us crying saying he didn't feel well. His stomach really hurt. I knew this must be real because this kid loved baseball and it would take alot to keep him out of the game. I immediately asked him if he wanted to go home, that we could do that, no problem. He shook his head no and then the coach called everyone onto the field...the game was starting. Our son went into the game, playing his position and my husband and I took our seats. I was so upset to think our son didn't feel well and that this had to interrupt what is typicallly a much-loved event in our house. As I sat down this idea just swept over me...all the help you need is here right now because God is right here right now. You KNOW that. Of course God is right here I realized. It was that quick. Joy and relief just swept over me. I looked out at my son on first base, he smiled at me and gave me a head nod. He knew he was healed. That was the end of the stomach trouble.

I think of this healing often...maybe insignificant, certainly not life threatening...but it always reminds me of the immediacy and effectiveness of acknowledging God's presence.