ANYONE CAN BE A HEALER November 21, 2005 ISSUE

Next in our biweekly series on how people have nurtured their public practice of Christian Science.

SOMEDAY BECAME 'NOW'

MARILYN PERKINSON—Richmond, Virginia

RECENTLY A FRIEND surprised me by asking: What is a Christian Science practitioner, and why did you want to become one?

For a moment, I couldn't imagine how to describe the deep, God-based sense of purpose and direction that had come into my life since pursuing this ministry. But right then a verse from Psalms offered a three-fold reply to both my friend and me: "The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him" (28:7).

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