ANYONE CAN BE A HEALER December 17, 2007 Issue

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

A COMPATIBLE CAREER

OLAF BREMER—Hamburg, Germany

I ATTENDED a Christian Science Sunday School until I was a teenager, and then I drifted away from the religion.

In 1994, after a period of unemployment and some soul-searching, I took a job in the medical nursing field. Earlier on, as a conscientious objector in Germany, I had performed my alternative service as a nurse's aide in elder care, and I had enjoyed doing this kind of work.

In 1995, my girlfriend and our young son and I went to the island of Cyprus on a vacation. While there, our son became ill with a skin disease. My girlfriend had learned about Christian Science from my parents, and since we were not sure about finding appropriate medical care for our son where we were, we decided to contact a Christian Science practitioner for help through prayer. I wanted to help our son, but didn't know how to go about praying for him. However, I thought that I could find out by reading Science and Health. We had a copy of the book with us, and so I sat down with a bottle of beer and just started to read. As I did, I lost all desire for the beer. I used to consume alcohol daily. But since then, I haven't had another drink. Not only that, but my son was healed very quickly.

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