ANYONE CAN BE A HEALER February 12, 2007 Issue

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

GOD POINTED THE WAY

CHRISTA ANGELL—London, England

THE HEALING PRACTICE is a holy mission for me. Ever since I had Christian Science class instruction years ago, I felt I wanted to devote my life to helping others through prayer. One of the early Christian Science workers in Italy was a great inspiration to me because of her understanding that divine Love is ever present. So was my Christian Science teacher. And I felt a strong desire to follow in their footsteps.

First, however, I had a lot of spiritual growing to do. As a single mother with four children, I used my secretarial skills to support myself and the family for several years. But I never felt at home in those jobs. I often prayed to God to show me what I was meant to do to serve Him better and to move closer to the practice of Christian Science.

As a result of those prayers, the opportunity arose to teach language skills. And how I enjoyed this! For a while, I really thought I had found my niche. Here I had to work with people who were at important stages of their lives, who were going to move to a new country and needed to learn a new language. Often my first task was to help remove their limiting fears that they were too old to learn another language and to embark on a new lifestyle.

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