Who is this blogger, anyway?

2/9/2012

Who is this blogger, anyway?

To learn about me is to learn about healing prayer. Really, it is what I am all about. I believe that everyone can be benefited by healing prayer. Spirituality isn't a lifestyle choice. It is the basic element of identity. Experiencing the divine through prayer reaches to the core of one's true being. It meets the human need like nothing else can.

I am a Christian Science practitioner and teacher and I absolutely love my work! I have practiced Christian Science for others since 1989. But let me start this conversation by telling you a bit about how this all came about.

My family was introduced to Christian Science through my dad’s healing of acute depression after World War II. So, I was exposed to the idea that God heals sickness from an early age.

When I was twelve, I decided to pray myself for a healing after impaling my foot on a rusty nail. As extraordinary as it may sound, within moments of starting to pray, the pain stopped. In this prayer, I quite simply realized and declared that I was spiritual, and not material. I cleaned the wound, wrapped my foot and continued to pray. By evening the wound was healed and I never had any ill effects - no problems with tetanus, infection or scarring from it.

A few years after this healing, when I was sixteen, I began a deep study of the Bible. As I traced the events of healing prayer through the millennia, I became convinced that the spiritual light of Christ - the God-power that brought healing through the prayers of patriarchs and prophets, Christ Jesus and the disciples - was still present today.

This series of events - Dad's healing, my own effective prayers and that insight into the Christ - set my future course in the practice of Christian Science.

In 1979, I began training to become a Christian Science nurse. Nursing provided me with a good look into healing through spiritual means. After five years of formal training and mentoring, I nursed for an additional five before opening my first office as a Christian Science practitioner in New Jersey, USA. (A recent blog post discussed a course of instruction I took that laid an important foundation in my preparation to help others through prayer.)

Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer and founder of Christian Science, wrote, "The seeker of Truth will find it." I have lectured publicly and helped legislators, journalists and public authorities understand the connection between prayer and healing. But the main theme of all my years in the practice of prayer has been to help seekers find Truth, God.

I moved to Paris in 2005 and began teaching classes on Christian Science in 2010.

Now it's your turn. What brings you to the subject of God, spirituality, prayer? Who are you?

Yves

2/8/2012 02:19:24 am

Okay, Michelle thank you for this post and the subsidiary question.
We all have a spiritual history, that is to say we have a spiritual point of view of our own to discover more of wchich constitutes our spiritual identity, or to express it.
Who am I ?
I was born in Paris, and till now I lived mostly in this area.
Since my childhood, I was passioned by spirituality and I didn't know why. For example I wondered why and how the bumblebees, apparently so heavy, could fly. I wondered how to travel from one star to another, to the limits of infinity... Those questions never left me till the age of 17.
At 17, Christian Science was brought to me through a friend, and since that time, I never ceased to practice it.It explained to me that the so-called edge of the universe, the infinity I was tempting to search mentally, could not be material, but spiritual.
I could accept the persistent present conviction in me, that all things are possible... And all things became possible ! So, I got too a spectacular first healing : I was healed from lice and nits in my hair that I bore long, by understanding instantaneously that those material parasites do not exist. I felt asleep quiet, (it was time to sleep) and happy, and when I awoke my hair and my head were perfectly clean. Since, I was never never afraid by lice and nits, and even now, I can bear my hair short or long anyway without any problem.
Healing came because I relinquished a bit too personal of my understanding of the ego.
Since that time I identify most of the healings, true healings, as the recover of the native harmonious forms offered by a necessary bit of renunciation of erroneous ideas concerning oneself on this permanent path we walk to find one's place.
After this healing, I attended primary class. In fact, it was not marvellous at all...Because it IS marvellous ! And this, every day of my life, since almost 30 years now.
I confirm that what I say is true... and this I whom confirms is I (I AM THAT I AM).
I wish we share all the same quality of life.
Yves

Michelle Nanouche link

2/8/2012 02:32:14 am

Merci, Yves, for sharing your wonderful experience and for being the first to jump into tge conversation! Long or short, we all have a fire or a question burning in us that leads to reading blogs like this one. I hope more of our readers will share a little warmth from their fire with us!

Tamara

2/8/2012 05:14:06 am

What a great idea to talk about our spiritual history; thanks for sharing yours!
My mother was diagnosed with an incurable disease and therefore could not have children. She prayed for some years with the help of a Christian Science practitioner, and after some time she became pregnant and I was born. I always knew of this healing since my childhood, but I just started to get involved with Christian Science in my youth. My first Christian Science healing was a cure of measles: I asked a practitioner for help and I was healed in two days. At that time I had other healings (in relationships, study / career ...).
So 10 years later, I faced many challenges in my life and this was a turning point to increase my involvement with Christian Science. I decided to rely completely on God and dedicate myself more to the study of Christian Science. The result was a progressive spiritual growth. Now, I feel that every day I learn a little more about God and my spiritual history.

Michelle Nanouche link

2/8/2012 05:20:25 am

Isn't this wonderful? It feels GOOD to get our story out. Thank you, Tamara!

Amy Duncan link

2/8/2012 05:55:52 am

I was raised in a secular family, but was an ardent little seeker as a child. Growing up, I investigated many spiritual paths, but as a young adult expecting my first child, one day I finally found the answer to all my questions and pondering. I was living in Boston at the time and was walking through the Boston Common one day when I saw some people sitting at a table covered with books. I was curious, so I walked over to see what they were offering. These people were Christian Scientists working at a "Bookmobile" table, and they had copies of the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy. I had heard of Christian Science (hard not to, when you live in Boston!) and had even walked by The Mother Church many times and wondered what "Christ" had to do with "Scientist," but I had never investigated. I didn't want to seem greedy, so I picked up the thinnest book I could find on the table, which was "Unity of Good." As soon as I took it home and read the first couple of pages I knew it was the truth I'd been looking for all those years. I found a Reading Room and got Science and Health and a Bible, as well as a Christian Science Quarterly, and the rest is history, sort of. Actually some years later I wandered away from Science...I just didn't seem to have the moral fiber to stick with it. But I came back, and I'm soooo glad I did! Thanks for your excellent blog, Michelle.

Michelle Nanouche link

2/8/2012 06:23:04 am

You are welcome! And thanks for sharing your story with us!

Hey, blog readers, if you click on Amy's name, it will take you to HER cool new blog. She shares her experiences growing up in a great blogging voice.

Amy Duncan link

2/8/2012 08:22:22 am

Merci, Michelle!

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