You Can Be a Healer August 13, 2012 Issue

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

Guidance of the 'still small voice'

Reagan Havi L'lembe—Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

As a young child , I’d always wanted to serve God and humanity. But every so often I’d wondered, How? When? And where?

When I was growing up, my family often faced education and housing challenges due to financial lack. As I helped provide for my parents and siblings, a divine thought constantly reminded me of my purpose. As God tells us in the Bible: “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee” (Jeremiah 1:5).

When I was 14, a family friend visited our home one night with news about a religion he had found: Christian Science. My Dad, brother, and I were so interested that we came together with this friend and several other households to form the Mbale Society in Kenya. I was still in school, and spent time studying Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. The idea that God made man and other creatures free of suffering, and all good, made sense to me.

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