It was spring of 2003 when I located online the name of a Christian Science practitioner. For several weeks I had been experiencing a severe and unrelenting pain in my back and was unable to gain relief from several chiropractors or from the supposed pain killers prescribed by a medical doctor. I remembered the testimony of a friend who had had her back permanently healed through Christian Science, and I felt somewhat comfortable returning to Christian Science (my childhood church)–though I had changed churches long ago. I talked to the practitioner, explaining my CS background and explaining my problem–hoping she would work with me. She immediately set to work–surprising me with her quiet reassurances of God’s All-ness and Love (surprising me because she was wholly unpersuaded to my viewpoint of pain and panic). I was inspired with hope and ready to stop the medications. She assigned me portions to read in the Bible and Science and Health, and, although I tried to tell her that I would be unable to overcome the pain sufficiently to follow through with such readings, she was gently insistent, and I did manage to read. I stayed in touch with her over the next several days via telephone–never meeting her until much later. And, during that short time, my ability to read her assignments and take notes during our conversations steadily improved. Within a few days, the experience of pain vanished completely and suddenly. I recall one moment standing, in pain, in my kitchen–holding onto the counter for support– and the next moment feeling absolutely no pain–and feeling a little absurd for holding onto the counter. My children and husband were stunned. I now read everything I can find related to Mary Baker Eddy and Christian Science, and I have hope that, someday, I might be able to offer to others the Truth and the Love–in knowledge and in demonstration– that this practitioner offered to me!
Testifier: Pam Rogers, email: progers30024@yahoo.com