Article October 9, 2006 Issue

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

ANYONE CAN BE A HEALER

GOD SHOWED ME HOW TO HELP

CONSUELO MENDOZA—WALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS

I was exhausted by a tremendous emptiness, and desired only to end my life. I called on God, "If You really are there, please help me." That was 15 years ago, before I knew anything about Christian Science.

At that time I was living in my native country of Colombia and had decided to apply for foreign study — simply to find new direction. I took an Italian language class and became friends with a Christian Scientist. Soon she took me to a Christian Science Reading Room, where I purchased Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

I read that whole book in one week! It was impossible to stop reading it. And through my reading of Science and Health, I felt a reconciliation with God and a clear demand to change my way of living. It was as if He was telling me that if I didn't stop the drugs, smoking, and drinking, I would always suffer.

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