Fujiko Signs, a teacher in Tokyo, Japan, recalls reading Science and Health and, after having a number of healings, wondering, "Is there any way to learn more about Christian Science?" In 1994, within six months of her first encounter with Christian Science, she applied for a course of instruction. She began healing people immediately afterward and advertised her practice in 2000. Signs says that she was moved by the sacrifice and commitment that people back in Mrs. Eddy's day made to take class. "$100 was a lot of money back then. Those people borrowed money to take the class and sacrificed everything for it. I felt I lacked that commitment. I wasn't giving 100 percent like those people. So I decided to take the next step, to discipline my life, and make the commitment."
Signs says that if you wait until you think you're "ready" to take class instruction or to use what you learn in class to heal other people, you may never take the step. "I had to have a goal to measure up to or enlarge my understanding of who I am. I had to keep asking, 'What's next? What more can I do?' After all, Science and Health and class instruction ask you to go out and not keep what you've learned about healing to yourself."
"Commit yourself to that," she says, "and you'll never be afraid or worried about what might or might not happen, financially or otherwise. Only good can come of it."
