about the healer

 

Proof in practice

I have studied Christian Science on my own, mostly all of my life. However, my grandmother, Laura Bergstrom, my mother's mother, was also a Christian Scientist. She was sixty-five years old when I was born, and she died when she was in her nineties, having lived a colourful, and dynamic, and impressive, lifestyle, even to the very end. After raising her eight children and outliving her husband, she lived the rest of her life on her own, and certainly without any loss of her mental faculties. From as early as I can remember, I had learned that God was everything good, because of my grandmother's explanation to me. Then, through so many stages, and in so many ways after that, I experienced and observed the practical and healing benefits demonstrated by her understanding of infinite God, as Divine Life, Truth, and Love, that could, and does, effectively cast out all fear.

I inherited my grandmother's collection of Christian Science books, including a copy of her Church Manual of the First Church of Christ Scientist, in Boston, Mass., by Mary Baker Eddy, which has a copy of the acceptance of my grandmother, as a member of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Victoria, B. C., dated January 1943. When I graduated from high school, she gave me a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Eddy Baker, which is "the original and only textbook on Christian Science." However, by then, I already had another copy, given to me by my dad's sister, whom I met when I was fourteen years old, twelve years after my dad had died.

Either way, it is the book from my grandmother that I have used over the years, and still do, even though it is full of margin notes, and underlinings, and now, is even bound with clear duct tape! Inside the text, she inscribed the following words, which I have found to be true:

Over the years that I have studied and practiced Christian Science, I feel especially privileged to have been able to continue getting to know my grandmother because of this shared understanding. If longevity, along with vitality, wasn't considered so weird, and by so many people back then, I am sure she would still be here, actively going about her life. Perhaps, in many ways, she still is.

Full on-line texts of the King James Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Eddy Baker, and other information about Christian Science, including articles such as Contagion; Bird flu—any flu, stop the fear; Who will take care of me?; How can a good God allow suffering?; New views at every turn; Science and Health Chapter Highlights; The artist within; Time masters; What is scientific religion?; Cause for thankgiving; Toward a chance-free life expectancy; Redefining longevity: the new centenarian spirit; A zest for living, to 100 and beyond; MONEY; and What is a Christian Science Practitioner? can be found on the Christian Science Publishing Society site, spirituality.com; the Christian Science site; the Church of Christ, Scientist site; or on the Healing Unlimited site. Concept Sunday School is a collaborative site to make Sunday School ideas available to anyone. The Christian Science Monitor, a seven-time Pulitzer Prize-winning international newspaper, was launched by Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, when she was 87 years old, with the goal "to injure no man, but to bless all mankind."

Please feel welcomed to contact me, if you would like more information about Christian Science spiritual healing and treatment.

I hope to eventually take formal Christian Science Primary Class Instruction, however, at this time, there are no authorized teachers of Christian Science in Victoria, British Columbia who can hold such a class.

 

What Our Leader Says

 

I am exceedingly grateful that my grandmother introduced me to Christian Science.

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