YOU CAN BE A HEALER June 7, 2010 Issue

Our biweekly series on how people have nurtured their public practice of Christian Science healing.

PROMOTED TO SERVE

VALORIE MILLER—KODIAK, ALASKA

OFTEN I'M ASKED, "How do you like retirement?"—to which I enjoy responding, "I am calling it 'transitionment,' and I got a promotion!" This transitionment, as I call it, is from a career of over 35 years in the field of juvenile justice. Over the years I had countless opportunities to raise my consciousness through prayer and to see youth, parents, law enforcements, officers, and others as spiritual ideas of God.

Having been raised in Christian Science, I witnessed and heard many amazing testimonies of healing, which made a lasting impression on me. For example, my maternal grandfather, a frail boy, was permanently healed through Christian Science treatment of diagnosed tuberculosis. And my maternal grandmother was healed of infantile paralysis through this practical Christ Science.

While in college, I took Christian Science class instruction in order to learn how to heal better. Within the first year after this instruction, I found myself needing to prove my trust in God when my horse seriously injured her shoulder and could not walk correctly. As I prayed for her, I faced scrutiny from others, and a veterinarian predicted that I would not be riding the horse for a long time to come, if at all. But after a couple of weeks of prayer, not only was my horse walking perfectly well, but she and I performed beautifully in a large horse show.

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