Members of the Marblehead church share experiences of healings and gratitude at the Wednesday Evening Meetings each week at 7:30 p.m. Some of these testimonies are listed below. Click on any subject to read the full testimony.

Generations of healings
An ongoing relationship with God
Dealing with children’s health
Overcoming pain

Generations of healings

My grandmother was the first in our family to study Christian Science. As a young woman, she was healed of pernicious anemia by reading our denominational textbook Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

After my younger brother was born, my mother was healed of uterine cancer within days of the diagnosis with the help of a Christian Science practitioner.

Our oldest son, when little, fell and bit right through his lower lip. He was healed within minutes when we said The Lord’s Prayer together, slowly, meaningfully and thoughtfully.

Our youngest son was born with a blood incompatibility that resulted in severe jaundice, so severe the doctor stayed awake through the night thinking our son would have to be rushed to a hospital in Boston for blood replacement. However, we prayed through the night with the help of a Christian Science practitioner to understand that our son was the beloved child of God, the perfect image and likeness, pure and perfect. The next morning, the doctors were surprised to see the indicators were all normal. The doctor said, “I don’t know what you are doing, but you keep right on doing it.”

In my own daily tasks, whenever I turn to God humbly for guidance and inspiration, there is always an answer, always help. I am very, very grateful.

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An ongoing relationship with God

A great many people, over many years, have turned to Christian Science to heal physical ills. An earnest study of the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, specifically Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, have enabled many to find rewarding employment, improve relationships, enhance family and neighborhood communication, find a fuller sense of life's purpose and satisfaction.

I've experienced many healings by relying entirely on the teachings of the Bible and Christian Science. But the greatest fulfillment in my life is ongoing, continuing.

Each day, through prayerful study of the week's Bible Lesson — and through active participation in our church's healing services, both Sunday morning and Wednesday evenings — I'm being blessed by an ever-growing understanding of my relationship with God. And, not only me and my family, I pray that God's word in each of our services will inspire not just those in the congregation, but all in our community.

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Dealing with children’s health

When my daughter was born, 19 years ago, an old friend and wellwisher made a not-so-welcome comment about never-ending trips to doctors that begin with the birth of a child, referring particularly to the expectation of the prevalence of ear infections among young children. Although not a student of Christian Science at the time, I nonetheless realized I wanted no part of such a prediction for my daughter.

Not long after her birth I was finally confronted with decisions with respect to immunization that led me to begin studying Christian Science. I nonetheless retained some aspect of the negative expectation concerning young children's health in the form of a kind of relief that my daughter was very seldom ill and never seriously. My understanding of Christian Science was still minimal, although in many ways my interest was committed.

One evening my usually verbose and feisty three-year-old was unusually lethargic, hot and sweaty, and on the way home from our nanny job she uncharacteristically slept all the way. I was apprehensive and began to speculate that I would not be able to go to my nighttime inventory job. As she sat at the counter, dinner untouched, she whimpered about pain in her ear and begged me not to go. At that point my husband arrived home and sat with her while I called a Christian Science practitioner.

Well, joy still overwhelms me when I remember turning around from the phone after the briefest of words with the practitioner, none of which I remember, and finding my daughter smiling, eating, and no longer sweaty. In fact, my usually demanding daughter asked brightly if I shouldn't be leaving for my nighttime job.

This healing is particularly meaningful to me and I hold it out to others because I felt, as many do, that Christian Science healing might work for some people but not for me; and that my understanding of Christian Science was insufficient. And perhaps that I did not deserve it. I have to admit that I called the practitioner with no particular expectation of healing, but simply because it was the only thing I could think of.

This healing has been a guiding light, sustaining me through doubt and a feeling of inadequacy —that I would never have enough time to devote to the study of Christian Science to make sufficient progress and be able to heal. I only hope it might encourage others to feel confident that spiritual healing is available to everyone.

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Healing of pain

My husband and I had signed up for a 10-mile canoe trip on the Allagash during our week at family camp. We were totally inexperienced paddlers, so the 10 miles turned out to be more like 20 as we zigzagged our way down the river.

After supper that night, I fell into bed in tears, arms aching and feeling as if they were going to drop off. The worst part was that we were only halfway through the week, and I had been looking forward to sailing, playing tennis, and water-skiing the next day. Now, I was afraid it would be a long time before I felt like doing anything.

My husband sat quietly beside me and, together, we prayed. We affirmed that I was a child of God created in His image. I was God’s spiritual idea and we knew that this spiritual idea was the real man of God’s creation. The more clearly I saw this fact, the more easily I could see through the misconception that I had a material body that could suffer from aching muscles.

As we talked, I felt more at peace. The tears gone now, we sang a few hymns together and I dropped off to sleep. I awoke the next morning totally free and for the rest of the week participated in every activity fully and with great joy and gratitude.

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