Kalamazoo feedback helpful to member

Thank you for your loving and meaningful message. I am still giving thanks and noting fruitage from your dear lecture.
I just received word from out lecture committee about the guest to the Kalamazoo lecture,that you wrote about, who is Roman Catholic and refused to attend your two PA lectures but came to the Kzoo lecture. This put me on my mental knees.

You may already know, but First Church of Christ, Scientist, Kalamazoo is only a few short blocks from a Roman Catholic church which has the largest Catholic congregation in Kalamazoo. Also, I have been dating a man who was stringently raised catholic, schooling and all. The handling of any belief of resistance to Christian Science due to Roman Catholicism has been an earnest prayer for the two years we have been at our current location. I, too, was raised catholic and dropped that system of beliefs when I came into Science at age 20. Your sharing of this healing is a breath of fresh air for me.
I thank God daily for your quiet and powerful healing work.
-S

Blessings of honesty

This morning as I laid next to my dear, sweet, wonderful, and peacefully-sleeping Matthew, I took a few moments to think about all I was grateful for. Although we're working it out each day (some days more than others ) he grows more and more precious to me. Sometimes I'm almost afraid to acknowledge how happy I am. I just had no idea that marriage (hard work!) could be so blissful!!! Really!

Anyway, as soon as I started expressing gratitude for all of the wonderful qualities of Matt and this marriage, and all the comforts of the wonderful home and life we're building together, it struck me that what I am most grateful for is honesty - Truth! And that led me to think about where this relationship was last year at this time, even 8 months ago. Although we were 'heady' over one another, the relationship was sort of perched on this precarious and not-so-solid treetop. We were going nowhere, but wanting so badly to move ahead. We did not see how to do this under the watchful eye of the 'the public' and kept going deeper and deeper into seclusion in an effort to figure things out in private. We also desperately wanted to live morally and were finding that more and more difficult as well.

That's when I called you. I felt ridiculous and stupid, but I poured out my story to you and you told me that I had to be moral and honest and that I had to be willing to have my actions exposed to the light of day. I had no idea how to do that, nor did I even want to have the world looking on while I figured things out. Matt pretty much felt the same way too. I had no thoughts that we would ever come to any conclusions about our relationship, let alone be married.

As we both pondered what it meant to be truthful and honest, the idea came very strongly (first to him) that we needed to be married! What an utterly ridiculous thought! How could it ever work? As we continued to cherish our desire for morality and honesty, this idea of marriage kept coming to us. And then even a ring - a ring that I didn't want and was not looking for- plopped right down in Matt's lap. And the ring was 1/7 th of its original marked price!!! And then a friend told us about a legal marriage ceremony (self-uniting) which would be easy and convenient. As we continued to marvel, yet remain unconvinced at the same time, the way was being paved to do what we really wanted to do - live honestly.

Fast forward.... now that we are married, we really do see that the problem wasn't the age difference and all of the family problems or gossip and scandal surrounding a relationship such as ours in the small community of a college where we both were visible. It was the fact that we were trying to hide and therefore deny honesty and truth its rightful place in our lives.

I will be ever-so-grateful for your stand for morality, for truth and for honesty, and for your courage to stand up to me and point out that I was indeed not being moral. I truly had no idea - I was hypnotized by the thoughts ever recurring to me about how things really were!!! Truth, honesty, morality. Matt and I often have discussions about these things now. We recognized that they are what saved us, and we so often are able to see that what appears to be a certain problem to the world is really not that problem at all, but a veil which is trying to hide truth - Truth itself.

So dear Elise, my gratitude this morning -not a long list of things - consisted of lots of thoughts about Truth, and the courage and love of those who stand for it, namely YOU!!!!!!

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

BIG HUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lorie

Kalamazoo feedback

Dear Mrs. Moore,
Deepest, heartfelt thanks again not only for your great gift of yesterday's lecture on The Healing Power of The Bible, but for all the prayerful work you poured into it for our church and our community. And, I believe you touched a spiritual cord with my daughter, who found her way to see you at the end. That is a first for her. I am so grateful for her receptivity to the ideas you presented.

May God's blessings abound to you and your family, as you have blessed us with this
great harvest-home.

Lovingly,
Sandy

Seneca SC feedback

Thank you for this warm and encouraging letter, Elise! I have shared your points with our membership and several have asked me to thank you for them and again for sharing your Friday night and Saturday with us. Several spoke during our Wednesday meeting about how meaningful the prep meeting was for them, too.

One member, Betsy McOmber, mentioned you'd be in Boston on Saturday and Kalamazoo on Sunday. Rest on eagles' wings and enjoy the trip!

Marybeth

Monclova

I just had an informal visit to Monclova Mexico. 25 people gathered in a hotel conference room to meet a Christian Science (me) and to talk about Christian Science. It’s a long story but one woman, Dora, contacted Cristina from C. Victoria. Cristina sent her a S&H and has been in email contact. Dora then began telling all her friends about CS. They began buying S&H through Cristina. Most everyone in the room had brought their Bible and Science and Health. We talked for 2 hours. At the end of it, a young man stood quietly at the door. As people were leaving he came in and told me that he’d been praying. And that God had told him to come to this hotel that there would be someone who could pray with him. So he’d walked to the hotel (which is all by itself not in a business district), and decided that I was the person God wanted him to talk to. We talked together briefly, prayed together, and he told me he was healed, the pain had gone away. Cristina had brought one copy of S&H with her so I gave it to him. The only copy of S&H available at that time in Monclova.

I met again with 17 of them the next day before we left. At the end of that meeting, they decided to start meeting every Weds to talk about the Bible Lesson together (which they’d just discovered existed). They are going to subscribe to the Bible Lesson and I encouraged them to subscribe to the Herald as well.

You knew that the group in C. Victoria is now a Society! They are now building a church on the outskirts of town because they are outgrowing their church space on the side of Cristina’s house. They are also now building a Reading Room space! I’ll have to tell you the whole story sometime when I have more time, but the bottom line is that an inspiration came to Cristina to have a second story RR on the side of her property in downtown C. Victoria that had a separate access from the street. Then the money to build it came in a divinely guided unfoldment and they are right now in the process of building the Reading Room!

Pittsburgh downtown

Hi Elise! I'm the fellow with the Hungarian name (Miklos) who came to your lecture at the YWCA in Pittsburgh. I just wanted to tell you (I had to leave early, I was on my lunch hour from work) what a blessing it was.

I happen to be a Jewish Scientist. A kind of subset of liberal Judaism, we have our own textbook and have much in common with Christian Science: we pray the same way.

Since high school days I've loved the works of Mrs Eddy, and am friends with all the folks who work in the downtown Pittsburgh Reading Room.

It wasn't surprising to hear of your work in interfaith circles; you have a warm, welcoming and non-judgmental manner, and I was thoroughly at home in your lecture.

With every good wish,

Miklos

Lecture in Pittsburgh

Thank you for the uplifting, inspiring and healing talk you gave yesterday at the Four Points Sheraton. I grew up attending a Christian Science Sunday School and have attended church recently, very sporadically for many years. I have really never understood how to pray. During silent prayer, my mind would wander. My prayers for healing, not very good! Yesterday, you explained simply and concisely how to pray. For this I will be always grateful. It was by the grace of God that I made it to your talk. I have had many so-called problems, and seeming limitations, and concerns for my children weighing me down the past years. Now I feel i have the tools to pray for healing and to be healed! Thank you so much
Ann S.

Dog healing

M Henry just sent a note saying that the treatment I gave was for her dog who had a complete healing in April 2004! She was grateful. It's never too late to acknowledge healing and be grateful to God.

Supply manifested

Money appeared to pay all my parents debts on time and even save some money for the future. A bank account of Mom's that I did not even know of appeared with three thousand dollars in it! Dad's care will be covered by Medicaid and is retroactive from day 21. I have hired a friend who is a Christian Scientist and a tax lawyer to look into the IRS situation with back taxes and he is hopeful that the government will forgive the debt. My parents affairs are in good order. This is Divine Science in action. I need to remember to worry less and let God, good, take its course. Thank you so much.
LOVE,
A Rogers