Article July 3, 2006 Issue

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

ANYONE CAN BE A HEALER

THE MOST WONDERFUL JOB

DAWN MARIE CORNETT——Syracuse, New York

WHEN I WAS 12, my family and I went to hear a talk on Christian Science. Afterward, the speaker asked me if I was in the work of Christian Science healing yet. I told him that I was only 12! He then basically said that since God did the work, I could be a healer at any age, and that God works through and with anyone sincerely wanting to know Him better, and willing to put that desire into action.

I'd grown up hearing how my parents' families had relied on spiritual healing. Going to God had become the norm, whatever the situation, and I really wanted to be a healer myself.

For example, when my dad was four years old, his mom had fallen down the stairs. Her injuries put her into a body cast. For a single mom of four young children, this was devastating, but her best friend, a Christian Scientist, suggested she ask a Christian Science practitioner to pray for her. She did, and within two weeks—not the six predicted—she was out of the cast and back to work. Through prayer, my dad was also healed of a severe wound from a chainsaw accident. My mom was cured of polio, and she and my brother of toxemia and severe aftereffects of his birth. I was healed of third-degree burns, a broken arm, a painful ear infection. The list goes on. The prayers of Christian Science practitioners had been part of those healing experiences. I thought they had the most wonderful job, and I knew I wanted to be like them—to help people be free of fear and illness.

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