Can walk stairs now

I am so thankful that I was led to come to California to hear your lecture on "Curing the Incurable" in Sutter Creek, California.  I enjoyed the lecture very much and I came away with so many good thoughts.  Previously, I had watched your lectures on line and I have read a number of your articles. 

Before I attended the lecture, I was having a problem going up and down stairs at my son's house.  A few days later after attending your lecture, I was healed and the stairs were no longer a challenge for me.

I became active in Christian Science at the beginning of this year and my friends, who are not Christian Scientists that came to the lecture with me, have seen how Christian Science has changed my life.  Since they did not know any thing about Christian Science, they wanted to make sure this religion was all right.  Your lecture was very helpful in quieting their fears for me.

With gratitude,

CB, Payette, Idaho

Back pain healed

I wanted to thank you and share my gratitude for your lecture last Sunday in Sutter Creek, CA.  The idea that you shared about the importance of claiming our innocence was pivotal in a healing that I experienced on Tuesday morning.  I was struggling with severe lower back pain which seemed to be brought about by working for an extended period under extreme stress and lack of sleep.  When I forcefully claimed my innocence - not guilty, pure, free - in my prayer and specific metaphysical treatment for myself, I was completely free of the problem within a very short time.

 

Yeah God!

 - J. Hunt-Brown

Gratitude prevents injury

I saw this post regarding having one grateful thought on Elise's facebook yesterday just before going out to the horses. I had the thought, yes I am grateful but I need to feel the gratitude let it sink in. As I was riding on the trail, I just keep feeling gratitude, very simple actually. As we were nearing the end of the ride we were heading down a trail that I had never been on along side a deep ditch and the thought came to turn around. I immediately started to turn my mare around and her front legs fell through ground. She popped right out since her weight was on her rear and just kept going like nothing had happened. I looked back and an animal had made a burro and the mare's weight was too much. She could have been seriously injured if her weight had been on the front legs. I had alot to be grateful for at that moment. But it was the feeling that I had experienced earlier that dispelled the frustration I had been feeling before our ride. I am so grateful.

-D Leonard

Prayer protects

In the lecture "God is Speaking to You" [also found on the website www.christianscience.com] your story of how you as a little girl were protected through prayer in the movie theatre, and how the man who had been thinking to do harm was also protected, freed from obliging error, is one of my favorite stories to share both for myself, and those I am sharing with, to illustrate God's love for us all.

Words enough cannot say, but I have felt like that woman who touched the hem of Christ's garment, wakened to a recognition of ever-present, omnipotent, omniscient Love, wakened to grace.

-A Butler, Orange County, CA

Using the "No!" prayer

After attending the lecture "Texting God: Effective Short Prayers", I mentioned to my husband last night how much I'm enjoying using the effective short "no" prayer. He replied, "Yeah, I used it successfully this morning to stop a headache in its tracks." :-) He asked me to let you know.

Today, I was enjoying finding effective short prayers in the Christian Science Bible Lesson and then went to the Christian Science Monitor to use them. My heart wrenched when I read about the flood victims in Pakistan -- the problems seem so big and so longstanding. Then I remembered, "Trust thou in the Lord; he is their help and their shield" (Psalm 115:9) and was filled with such a sense of God's allness and love that I realized that God is on the case and they will find solutions for every problem they are facing.

- V. Hughes

Sept 11

I am so grateful for this week's amazing Christian Science Bible-Lesson,--how the subject "Substance" was expanded to be a line-by-line treatment (healing prayer) to handle the pictures of death and destruction, the mortal history drama cramming every corner of the media re: 9/11. Am SO VERY GRATEFUL for the freedom and comfort of the Truth which embraces all humankind and wakes each one (no matter if the lie is earthquake, fires, floods, tornados, terrorism or financial failings) to recognize the presence of the Christ, the love of our Father-Mother God, and that the Kingdom of Heaven IS at hand!!!

Sept 11, 2011

T. Alexander

Heaven and Hell article in Aug 22, 2011 Christian Science Sentinel

Thank you for your marvelous insights and Bible references verifying what we know through Christian Science about heaven and hell. Recently, I was watching the 700 Club as Pat interviewed a minister of another Christian church who changed his views on heaven and hell, and wrote about it: Hell Is Real. He claimed he had been taught at Princeton that hell wasn’t real and that everyone was going to heaven, but he changed his understanding when on a private spiritual retreat God lead him through the New Testament showing him all the places where Jesus stated that hell is real ~ not in those exact words. When in prayer I asked God to explain how I am to consider Jesus words and that minister’s words. The reply was: “The word “real” refers to the human understanding and not to God’s reality. Hell has to be “real” in order to make the people see that they must repent from their evil ways. Otherwise, they will continue without salvation.” I deeply appreciate your Bible citations showing that God “will not leave me in hell.” You address this issue so superbly. I will continue to study your article until I can speak about this without hesitation. Your clarity of thought is a tremendous asset to our movement.

Thank you so much and God Bless You!
from New Orleans (Metairie), LA

I cannot thank you enough for what you have done for our church as well as those who attended the lecture, "God is Speaking to You". What you gave us was a message so simple but so direct that it enabled us to see everything we have learnt in a new and clearer light. All of us found the Lecture Preparation Workshop so helpful also. Giving us so many new ideas on how to present a lecture beforehand motivated all our members to co-operate with each other to bring about this inspiring event. I had two calls Sunday evening from those who attended the lecture who were so appreciative and full of joy at what they had heard. Also those who came were delighted to take home copies of your articles and also the calendar of events. It was a great idea and one we must continue to do in the future. All us us have benefited so much from this wonderful gift of Love that you have shared with us.
- Southampton, NY