Not long ago I woke up in the middle of the night feeling very ill.  I don’t know what was wrong, but the symptoms were those I’ve heard that describe food poisoning or stomach flu.  In the first moments when I became aware of how I felt, my impulse was to rush to the bathroom.  But as I came more fully awake, I realized that before that I could pray, using what I have learned about healing prayer through my study of Christian Science.  I thought about Christ Jesus and the healing grace he brought to mankind, including his promise that we, his followers, are able to heal with prayer, as he did.

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Not long ago I woke up in the middle of the night feeling very ill.  I don’t know what was wrong, but the symptoms were those I’ve heard that describe food poisoning or stomach flu.  In the first moments when I became aware of how I felt, my impulse was to rush to the bathroom.  But as I came more fully awake, I realized that before that I could pray, using what I have learned about healing prayer through my study of Christian Science.  I thought about Christ Jesus and the healing grace he brought to mankind, including his promise that we, his followers, are able to heal with prayer, as he did.

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Not long ago I woke up in the middle of the night feeling very ill.  I don’t know what was wrong, but the symptoms were those I’ve heard that describe food poisoning or stomach flu.  In the first moments when I became aware of how I felt, my impulse was to rush to the bathroom.  But as I came more fully awake, I realized that before that I could pray, using what I have learned about healing prayer through my study of Christian Science.  I thought about Christ Jesus and the healing grace he brought to mankind, including his promise that we, his followers, are able to heal with prayer, as he did.

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Not long ago I woke up in the middle of the night feeling very ill.  I don’t know what was wrong, but the symptoms were those I’ve heard that describe food poisoning or stomach flu.  In the first moments when I became aware of how I felt, my impulse was to rush to the bathroom.  But as I came more fully awake, I realized that before that I could pray, using what I have learned about healing prayer through my study of Christian Science.  I thought about Christ Jesus and the healing grace he brought to mankind, including his promise that we, his followers, are able to heal with prayer, as he did.

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“What makes you feel on fire? For me, it’s healing!” says Christian Science lecturer Christine Driessen.

Come hear her speak from experience in a lecture entitled

“Healing with Scientific Certainty through the Christ,”

Monday, March 7th at 7:30 p.m.,
Hayward church auditorium, 1814 B. Street 

Childcare will be provided.

The lecturer requests that everyone have a copy of Science & Health in hand to refer to during her talk. Paperback copies will be available for loan and for sale in the church foyer beforehand.

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The following healing experiences were shared at our Wednesday Evening Testimony Meetings.  More accounts of healing will be added in the near future.  Please enjoy reading these and come back soon.

Burn Quickly Healed Through Prayer

I was raised in Christian Science and during my childhood I had a number of healings brought about through the prayers of my mother.  The first instantaneous healing I had on my own took place when I was on summer break from college and working in Boston.  I shared an apartment on Commonwealth Avenue with two girls from school.  It was our arrangement to take turns cleaning up after meals. On this occasion as I was preparing to wash the dishes, I picked up a cast iron skillet from the gas stove. Unbeknownst to me, the burner had just been turned off and the skillet was searing hot. I carried it to the sink before dropping it and burned my hand severely.  In intense pain I turned immediately to God, and without looking at my hand, walked into the next room and directly to my desk where I picked up Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. I opened it at random and my eye fell on the following statement (page 393:18):

 “Have no fear that matter can ache, swell, and be inflamed as the result of a law of any kind when it is self-evident that matter can have no pain nor sensation.”

I was so astounded at how specific this was, how directly and absolutely it applied to my situation, met my need, that I was just about overcome with gratitude. I was instantaneously healed. There was no more pain and no mark.  A few weeks later, during the aftermath of a hurricane, the old French doors in our second story apartment blew open and were banging in the wind. As I went to close them, some of the windowpanes smashed and cut my hand badly.  I turned with confidence to that wonderful healing I had just experienced a few weeks before and the pain and bleeding stopped. A quick healing of the scar followed.   All these years later it still is a wonder to me that in a book of 700 pages, the precise answer to my need was at hand when I turned to it. It stands as a landmark to me that God is indeed a very present help in trouble. 

 S.M.

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The following healing experiences were shared at our Wednesday Evening Testimony Meetings.  More accounts of healing will be added in the near future.  Please enjoy reading these and come back soon.

Burn Quickly Healed Through Prayer

I was raised in Christian Science and during my childhood I had a number of healings brought about through the prayers of my mother.  The first instantaneous healing I had on my own took place when I was on summer break from college and working in Boston.  I shared an apartment on Commonwealth Avenue with two girls from school.  It was our arrangement to take turns cleaning up after meals. On this occasion as I was preparing to wash the dishes, I picked up a cast iron skillet from the gas stove. Unbeknownst to me, the burner had just been turned off and the skillet was searing hot. I carried it to the sink before dropping it and burned my hand severely.  In intense pain I turned immediately to God, and without looking at my hand, walked into the next room and directly to my desk where I picked up Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. I opened it at random and my eye fell on the following statement (page 393:18):

 “Have no fear that matter can ache, swell, and be inflamed as the result of a law of any kind when it is self-evident that matter can have no pain nor sensation.”

I was so astounded at how specific this was, how directly and absolutely it applied to my situation, met my need, that I was just about overcome with gratitude. I was instantaneously healed. There was no more pain and no mark.  A few weeks later, during the aftermath of a hurricane, the old French doors in our second story apartment blew open and were banging in the wind. As I went to close them, some of the windowpanes smashed and cut my hand badly.  I turned with confidence to that wonderful healing I had just experienced a few weeks before and the pain and bleeding stopped. A quick healing of the scar followed.   All these years later it still is a wonder to me that in a book of 700 pages, the precise answer to my need was at hand when I turned to it. It stands as a landmark to me that God is indeed a very present help in trouble. 

 S.M.

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The following healing experiences were shared at our Wednesday Evening Testimony Meetings.  More accounts of healing will be added in the near future.  Please enjoy reading these and come back soon.

Burn Quickly Healed Through Prayer

I was raised in Christian Science and during my childhood I had a number of healings brought about through the prayers of my mother.  The first instantaneous healing I had on my own took place when I was on summer break from college and working in Boston.  I shared an apartment on Commonwealth Avenue with two girls from school.  It was our arrangement to take turns cleaning up after meals. On this occasion as I was preparing to wash the dishes, I picked up a cast iron skillet from the gas stove. Unbeknownst to me, the burner had just been turned off and the skillet was searing hot. I carried it to the sink before dropping it and burned my hand severely.  In intense pain I turned immediately to God, and without looking at my hand, walked into the next room and directly to my desk where I picked up Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. I opened it at random and my eye fell on the following statement (page 393:18):

 “Have no fear that matter can ache, swell, and be inflamed as the result of a law of any kind when it is self-evident that matter can have no pain nor sensation.”

I was so astounded at how specific this was, how directly and absolutely it applied to my situation, met my need, that I was just about overcome with gratitude. I was instantaneously healed. There was no more pain and no mark.  A few weeks later, during the aftermath of a hurricane, the old French doors in our second story apartment blew open and were banging in the wind. As I went to close them, some of the windowpanes smashed and cut my hand badly.  I turned with confidence to that wonderful healing I had just experienced a few weeks before and the pain and bleeding stopped. A quick healing of the scar followed.   All these years later it still is a wonder to me that in a book of 700 pages, the precise answer to my need was at hand when I turned to it. It stands as a landmark to me that God is indeed a very present help in trouble. 

 S.M.

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I have lived in the same house for over forty years. It is not a big house or lot, but I have enjoyed it very much. It is pretty close to my neighbor’s house, but eventually her yard became very overgrown, creating a lovely green zone. I enjoyed the privacy this natural barrier gave both of us.

Then one day I heard chain saws and found the greenery had all disappeared. I met the new owner of the now quite visible house. He said he planned to fix it up, rent it, then sell it. Shortly, he poured a cement slab in the formerly green yard and the house was rented to a single parent with a basketball-playing ten-year-old.

I learned that this little family had moved from a cramped city apartment where he had not been able to practice basketball outside. I was happy that the boy now had a place to play, but I was very dismayed that my privacy and quiet had been replaced with barren cement, glaring lights at night, and the thunk, thunk, thunk of constantly bouncing balls. I decided to have new double-pane windows and doors installed, but this did not eliminate the annoying sounds.

I knew I wasn’t going to move, so I sat myself down, thought about the situation and prayed for a solution. While I was asking God for some direction I heard the familiar sound of the basketball bouncing on the court. I looked up to see the young boy shooting hoops with a face filled with joy. Right then, instead of seeing a noisy neighbor, I saw one of God’s children expressing God’s goodness. I knew he was in his right place, and so was I.

I had an attitude change. The noise stopped bothering me. In fact, now if I don’t hear it, I miss it and when it comes again a smile comes across my face and I know we are all embraced in God’s love. In Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, page 205, it says, “When we realize that there is one Mind, the divine law of loving our neighbor as ourselves is unfolded; whereas a belief in many ruling minds hinders man’s normal drift towards the one Mind, one God, and leads human thought into opposite channels where selfishness reigns. When we fully understand our relation to the Divine, we can have no other Mind but His,–no other Love, wisdom, or Truth, no other sense of Life, and no consciousness of the existence of matter or error.”

D.C.

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I have lived in the same house for over forty years. It is not a big house or lot, but I have enjoyed it very much. It is pretty close to my neighbor’s house, but eventually her yard became very overgrown, creating a lovely green zone. I enjoyed the privacy this natural barrier gave both of us.

Then one day I heard chain saws and found the greenery had all disappeared. I met the new owner of the now quite visible house. He said he planned to fix it up, rent it, then sell it. Shortly, he poured a cement slab in the formerly green yard and the house was rented to a single parent with a basketball-playing ten-year-old.

I learned that this little family had moved from a cramped city apartment where he had not been able to practice basketball outside. I was happy that the boy now had a place to play, but I was very dismayed that my privacy and quiet had been replaced with barren cement, glaring lights at night, and the thunk, thunk, thunk of constantly bouncing balls. I decided to have new double-pane windows and doors installed, but this did not eliminate the annoying sounds.

I knew I wasn’t going to move, so I sat myself down, thought about the situation and prayed for a solution. While I was asking God for some direction I heard the familiar sound of the basketball bouncing on the court. I looked up to see the young boy shooting hoops with a face filled with joy. Right then, instead of seeing a noisy neighbor, I saw one of God’s children expressing God’s goodness. I knew he was in his right place, and so was I.

I had an attitude change. The noise stopped bothering me. In fact, now if I don’t hear it, I miss it and when it comes again a smile comes across my face and I know we are all embraced in God’s love. In Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, page 205, it says, “When we realize that there is one Mind, the divine law of loving our neighbor as ourselves is unfolded; whereas a belief in many ruling minds hinders man’s normal drift towards the one Mind, one God, and leads human thought into opposite channels where selfishness reigns. When we fully understand our relation to the Divine, we can have no other Mind but His,–no other Love, wisdom, or Truth, no other sense of Life, and no consciousness of the existence of matter or error.”

D.C.

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