Three CEOs of large hospitals in my region were quoted in my local newspaper last Saturday as expressing great concern about rising health care costs. The article in the Tri-City Herald stated that “According to data from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, health care spending per capita has grown from $2,800 per person in 1990 to about $8,000 per person currently and will rise to $12,800 per person by 2016.

Whoa! That is a whole lot of money, I thought. I couldn’t relate to the figures at all because my family has relied upon Christian Science for health care needs over the last 20 plus years, and healthcare expenses for us have been minimal.

I was raised in a home that practiced Christian Science healing, and it was natural to raise my own family the same way. It really works. It doesn’t take large medical bills to pray and be healed spiritually, just healthy doses of humility, sincerity, truly leaning on God, and consistent spiritual growth.

After reading the above article it was clear that anyone putting Christian Science into practice and living its healing truths consistently saves thousands of dollars. And the even better part is that the money saved can be used elsewhere other than paying high insurance premiums and astronomical hospital bills.

I did a quick sketch of how much money my family has saved by relying upon Christian Science over the last twenty years per the figures quoted in the above government report. I realize there are many factors involved with this kind of a calculation, but you have to start somewhere. For my wife and me alone, the savings came out to over $200,000. This doesn’t even begin to include the thousands of dollars we’ve saved on healthcare costs with our two children.

Think of what you can do with $200,000? You can give generously to charities, fund college expenses with ease, pay off the mortgage, buy a car for cash…. $200,000 is a boatload of money. You can also cover a major medical expense if one were to occur unexpectedly.

But my point being, Christian Science has its day coming. Society cannot continue to cope with rising medical costs indefinitely. There will come a time when people will wake up and realize “The medical model is not working. There has to be a better way.”

And there is a better way. Mary Baker Eddy saw it clearly and shared it with the world in her book “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.” This book teaches one how to practice Biblical principles and stay healthy. The truths of Christian Science enable its student to cure ills at home. You don’t need expensive runs to the emergency room or endless prescriptions of expensive drugs. The spiritual way is the healthier way. It keeps tens of thousands of dollars in your pocket, heals you from the inside out rather than tinkering with outside symptoms, and enables you to experience more of the joys of life that expensive medical costs sap away.

I agree that it’s easier to write about it then actually do it, perhaps. But thousands of people have succeeded in the past, are succeeding today, and will succeed in the future. Christian Science definitely enriches its adherents in more ways than one.