Testimony

By Sharon Anderson 🌻

A friend recently stated, “People who work in hospitals are doing something that doesn’t exist.“ I couldn’t stop thinking of that statement. To me that meant that Christian Science has shown me that God is the only healer. He does not heal by material means. The reality is, we are all living in a spiritual world.

What does exist then? The spiritual is untouched by materiality. God is the only healer. “If Spirit is all and is everywhere, what and where is matter?” (Science and Health, page 223:8) I kept with those thoughts, little knowing what that work was preparing me for.

On the following Saturday, I was planning to attend a family wedding. The wedding was some distance from where I live so my cousin said I could come the day before and stay with him at his house. Almost as soon as I got there he told me his 21 year old grandson was in the hospital ICU for the past week and was in a coma. I immediately thought of my friend’s statement and the thoughts I was working with the days before.

The next morning my cousin (who has a large ranch) had outside chores so I had alone time to read the Bible Lesson. The lesson was Man which included part of the definition of man in Science and Health. Whenever “man” was written, I said Daren’s name. Later that day, I went to the hospital with my cousin and we were told that Daren was coming out of the coma and was responsive to the doctor.

Then on Sunday morning, I was alone again for several hours and was able to read the Bible Lesson as well as listen to The Mother Church Sunday service. In the afternoon we went to the hospital and were told that a nurse did a breathing test on Daren and since he was able to breathe on his own they were going to take him off the breathing machine.

On Monday I traveled back home, but kept in touch with my cousin. During the week he said that Daren was going to be transferred to a rehabilitation hospital in another town. This week when I called my cousin I asked if Daren had been transferred to the other hospital, he said no there was no need to do that and that he was home.

I want to say that I never went in Daren’s hospital room. I know that I was able to keep my thinking clear because of not seeing him hooked up to all the medical devices and that was a huge part of this demonstration. Another positive thing was that no one told me why he was in a coma and in the hospital. Because of that I didn’t have to deal with those thoughts in my own thinking.

The family had a private waiting room with 8 or 10 chairs in it and it was always full of family members. At one point, I was standing in the doorway and Daren’s girlfriend was in the hall. I was able to have a private conversation with her and to make some scientific statements to her.

This was a huge demonstration for me and I was prepared because a friend made the thought provoking statement, “People who work in hospitals are doing something that does’t exist.” This struck me so clearly that what is true is always true, regardless of where it appears to be going on. “Truth is always the victor.” (p. 380) In fact this experience has made me a stronger Christian Scientist. I want to include that I am the only Christian Scientist in my family.

Sharon Anderson