An occasional column, recording insights and experiences from members of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship as they travel the world, speaking on Christian Science and its healing mission.
IN LATE SUMMER of 2009, I traveled with my wife to Sylt, the northernmost of Germany's islands, where I had been invited to give a Christian Science lecture.
During the three and a half hour train trip through the flat North German marshlands, my wife and I prayed for this lecture and shared many healing ideas. Specifically, we affirmed, "Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose in order that the purpose may appear" (Science and Health, p. 506). We felt we were on God's mission, and that He was guiding every phase of this healing occasion. My wife had given a lecture on the island the previous year, and I'd accompanied her, so we had already gotten our feet on the ground there, so to speak. It had been especially heartening then to see how many island residents were genuinely interested in spirituality.
