Time flies when you spend a day with Jim Spencer. Or maybe time actually stands still. Either way, you find yourself living totally in the moment.
Jim himself feels like it was only yesterday when people began calling on him for help and healing. They came to him first when he was in high school, then when he was in college. They came to him later when he served as an Army chaplain and Christian Science lecturer. And they continue coming to him today. For several decades, people have turned to Jim—a Christian Science practitioner and teacher—to help rescue them from every kind of trouble.
Jim lives with his wife, Barbara, in Brookline, Massachusetts, about a 20-minute drive from The Mother Church. Their house sits on a hill across the street from the Brookline Reservoir, where Jim and Barbara love to walk their sleek and gentle Weimaraner, Shiloh, who moves in tune with everything they say and do. You can see the reservoir from Jim's home office—where I visited with him a few weeks ago. We sat in brown leather wingback chairs in front of the fireplace. And we spent that afternoon talking about Christian healing. I never once looked at the clock.
