"At the time," says Lynn Jackson, "the practitioner's suggestion that I get a better sense of body only puzzled me. I thought, 'A better sense of body? Can't just be healed?' " But for Lynn, now a Christian Science practitioner and teacher herself, that suggestion proved invaluable—and not just because of the healing. "What she was pointing me to was a way to grow spiritually. And once I saw that, I really worked to improve my sense of body by studying Mary Baker Eddy's writings." The result? "Body work" (p. 36).
High-school sophomore Tim Crump may be miles away from where he was when the healing he talks about in his piece, "Back on the mat" (p. 58), occurred. But only in terms of location. Today, the native Virginian, now a football player and wrestler at Principia Upper School in St. Louis, Missouri, still has plenty of opportunities to put prayer into practice—both on the mat and off. And as a result, he says, the healing is never far from thought.
As it turned out, the sleepless nights were not in vain. All the thinking that contributing editor Colleen Douglass did about time, space, and matter, came to fruition in this month's editorial, "Beyond the visible horizon" (p. 61). As a Christian Science practitioner and teacher, Colleen has had plenty of opportunity to prove the power of the paradigm shift from matter to Spirit. But writing about it, she says, "further clarified both the nature of this shift and the possibilities that spring from making it."
