Christian Science Sentinel

When I asked the Christian Science practitioner for prayer to heal hemorrhoids, I never mentioned my drug addiction. However, after the complete healing I discovered that all desire to use drugs was gone. No willpower was involved—it was the light of the Christ, dissolving the “mist and shadow into Truth’s clear day.”

I grew up in a family where my mother and grandfather suffered from manic depression. Having seen how little help the traditional methods had given my mom and my grandfather, when I was having major mood swings, my desire was to really heal the problem. That's when I found Christian Science and was healed.

I was ten years old, and on this day I fell from the ten-foot-high diving board onto the concrete alongside it, missing the water entirely. I have no memory of the fall itself, but what I do remember is just as vivid now as it was the day it happened.

Each of us, as God’s sons and daughters, has been endowed with the spiritual sense to discern and value freedom. This kind of liberty means being free from all the claims of material existence and its so-called laws, including freedom from sin, disease, and, ultimately, death.

The physical law that a bullet traveling at great speed will not stop without a solid object to stop it, was nullified. I experienced the safety that flows from a spiritual understanding of God and man, and this safety is available to all of us.

Fatherhood need not be a mental tug of war between Dad and the kids. The solution I've found is to stop pushing and instead to yield to the heavenly Father through humble prayer.

The words “deep melancholia” persistently knocked at the door of my thought after my wife filed for divorce and full custody. I realized that God was my only hope for breaking out of what seemed a hopeless situation

I gradually began learning about Christian Science, including reading testimonies of healing. But I still felt a long way from dealing with eczema, which I’d suffered from since infancy and had been treating medically. Then one day I decided to pray and everything changed.

When I joined the United States Army, I turned to Christian Science as never before. Probably at no other time in my life had I relied on understanding my spiritual status as the image and likeness of God as much as at Infantry Officer Candidate School (OCS), held at Fort Benning, Georgia.

I was at a private party when demonstrators broke in. Suddenly I was in the middle of a riot. I was startled; then I was afraid; then I prayed, “God help me.”