What *The Christian Science Monitor* Means to Me December 2, 2013 ISSUE

Healing in the hair salon

Helena Rhonda Bullion

I love all the different Christian Science periodicals: the Journal, Sentinel, Herald, the weekly Bible Lesson, and especially the Monitor. When I’m prayerfully reading these publications, I often feel God leading my thought so that any fearful concerns I face in my day are corrected and reversed. I also see how reading expands my love for God and my fellow man—it has happened so many times. It reminds me of something the Apostle Paul wrote in Philippians: “Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus” (2:4, 5 ).

I remember one of the earliest times I experienced a healing from reading The Christian Science Monitor—it was just after I had become employed as a new hair stylist at a salon in my neighborhood. I was sitting at my station one day and feeling concerned about not having any clients. My pay was on commission, so it depended on the clients I served. 

As I sat there feeling concerned for myself, I looked down into my lap where the copy of the Monitor I’d been reading was lying. Suddenly I thought, “Well, I have the whole world sitting in my lap right here—all this good, solution-oriented news.” I knew that this newspaper was blessing the world, and that it surely could bless me, too.

Turning to God in prayerful listening, I turned away from the concern I was feeling for myself and began reading one article after another. And in each article I read, I was inspired by the good reporting of progress and the blessings for others around the world. Each article was wonderful. I came to a piece about families who were just finishing the school year. It profiled a few parents and children, and talked about their planned adventures for the summer.

Suddenly, the door of the salon opened and in came a family with several children—just like the ones I had been reading about. One of the parents told me the children had just finished school for the summer and were being treated to haircuts and styling. Just like that, all my fearful concern was gone, and I was blessed with lots of business going forward.

Throughout my years of studying Christian Science, prayerfully reading the publications has answered my daily concerns so many times. Mary Baker Eddy wrote in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “Science reveals the glorious possibilities of immortal man, forever unlimited by the mortal senses” (p. 288 ). Day by day, step by step, it is a joy to see this being proved.

About the author

Helena Rhonda “Ronnie” Bullion is a Christian Science practitioner living in Baltimore, Maryland.

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