HOW I SHARED CHRISTIAN SCIENCE WITH SOLOMON WORKAR

KAREN LEA AASAND

My company makes faith-based, true-life films about people transformed by their relationship with God. In August 2008 Solomon Workar looked online for a film company to come to Liberia to teach his church how to make video testimonies of healings. He found our company.

I respond to every e-mail, but initially I felt justified in not answering his request, as it seemed rather presumptuous and forward. Then a gentle message came to me that I must respond. As First Reader at my Christian Science branch church, I'd been praying to find ways to help make a newcomer feel comfortable and welcome.

Responding to Solomon would be expressing the true nature of Church as a spiritual concept (see Science and Health, p. 583). So I wrote to him and started a dialogue as a fellow Christian. Since my intent was to express Love and to let God respond to whatever the need, the writing came easily. It wasn't me doing the work—and that was something of an issue at the time, because I was quite ill. I'd been praying in Christian Science expecting healing, as I usually do, but simply walking up the stairs each day from my office to our living space was a challenge.

Solomon, however, was pretty insistent that I send help with filmmaking. So, even though I didn't feel physically up to it, I followed what seems now to be a rather unusual course of action. I filled a large box, first with a book on filmmaking; next, even though he was clearly affiliated with a different faith, I added copies of the Sentinel, The Christian Science Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and one Science and Health. It just felt so right to do this. And since I felt moved by God to do it, I was able to get to the post office with the heavy box and mail it with ease.

Then I prayed for its safe arrival. The first e-mails I received after the box arrived showed how enthused Solomon was with the film book. But soon he shared healings that he, his pastor, his brother, and others were having, not only from that one copy of Science and Health but from the periodicals as well.

As I thought about Solomon's unburdened freedom in sharing and using Christian Science—and the healings that were coming—I was reminded that spiritual healing isn't complicated or difficult. I felt encouraged and became inspired to pray with freshness for myself.

I too, experienced tremendous healing, such that recently my husband and I traveled from our West Coast sea-level home to the Rocky Mountains, and went on a rigorous hike above 6,000 feet—something I could not have done a few months ago.

—KAREN LEA AASAND

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