UPFRONT January 7, 2008 Issue

A seamstress brings healing

MAIKE BYRD, CHILDREN'S EDITOR

Nothing is quite as powerful as the transformation that happens when someone changes their outlook healing from a purely material to a spiritual approach.

In my family, it all began with a traveling seamstress. I still today remember her name. Fraulein Munster would come to my childhood home periodically to help sew outfits for my sister and brother and me. Fraulein Munster was also, as we came to find out, a Christian Scientist. Until then, I don't think anybody in the small town in Germany where I grew up had ever heard of Christian Science.

Arriving at our house one day, Fraulein Munster found my mother in great distress. She'd been ill for some time and taken many medications, but her health had only deteriorated, and she had become very weak. Her doctor couldn't help her anymore, and so she was to be taken to the hospital the following day. My mother didn't want to leave her young children and was full of fear. That's when Fraulein Munster spoke to her about the possibility of spiritual healing as described in the Bible. She told my mother about a book that explained how Jesus had healed and how people can heal today in the same way. And then she gave her a copy of the book, Wissenschaft and Gesundheit mit schlussel zur Heiligen schrift, the German translation of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by the American author Mary Baker Eddy.

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