 Posted Friday, December 03, 2010 8:16 AM
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I haven't posted for several years, but am back because C.S. is still active in my psychological issues. I gave my current therapist my copy of Linda's book to help him understand me. Does anyone else have any suggestions on how to get my therapist up to speed? Fortunately, he is religious (mainstream Protestant).
Glad to see the posters from back then are still active.
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Posted Friday, December 03, 2010 8:59 AM
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Broncho,
Recovery from Christian Science for me has been very much like recovery from any other addiction. So, yes, I consider recovery a lifelong process.
Being active in 12 Step programs had a lot to do with my recovery and coming to Christ. I am an adult child of an alcoholic and had a girlfriend who was an alcoholic/user who is recovering in AA and NA. She's been clean and sober for more than 20 years. I was in NARANON (not NARCAON!), Adult Children of Alcoholics, and joined her on occasion for AA and NA meetings (usually open meetings, but sometimes sneaked into closed meetings). It was in the rooms of the 12 Step programs where Jesus met me and where I heard the Gospel in a manner that cut through my Christian Science programming.
It would be a privilege to communicate directly with your therapist or you, if that would be appropriate and useful. Just reply to this post and we could make those arrangements.
Do Go Be Man
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Posted Friday, December 03, 2010 4:33 PM
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Do Go Be Man,
Glad to hear you are still on the Forum. Your response gave me a lot of peace. This thing has no final answer for any of us, I suspect. I found Christ in a long journey. First, I went to Quaker Meeting because I had had close Quaker friends growing up who helped me survive. Later, I found the Episcopal Church, after a sort of conversion experience in Westminster Abbey in London. It is the perfect spiritual home for me. It is based on the Bible, tradition, and reason. I don't have to park my brain at the door! I feel God's love every time I am in church or with my church friends.
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Posted Saturday, December 04, 2010 8:43 PM
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| I was wondering if it is common practice for CS practitioners to send bills when they pray for you. In 2005 I had an issue with my physical health and decided to call a Christian Science practitioner for help. I was not a practicing Christians Scientist, but since my dad relied on it his whole life and it (seemed) to work for him, I thought it would be a good time for me to use the same method. I called the practitioner on the phone. He did not pray with me, but he gave me a passage of the Bible and Science and Health to contemplate. I know he prayed for me because I could feel it when I laid down later that day. I was thankful for his prayers, but extremely surprised when I got a bill in the mail from him a month later. I took it to be like a copay, his charge was comparable to what I was paying for a med insurance copay at the time. I did send him the check he asked for but I guess I never assumed a fee was attached to practitioners' work. Does anyone have any comments about this?
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Posted Saturday, December 04, 2010 8:51 PM
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foundling,
...I was wondering if it is common practice for CS practitioners to send bills when they pray for you...
Yes, not only is it common, it is expected. Journal-listed Christian Science practitioners are considered professionals even by many health insurance companies. At least when I was in Christian Science, my Blue Cross-Blue Shield policy provided for payment of practitioners, for care in Christian Science nursing facilities, and for care by Christian Science nurses. Mary Baker Eddy set the standard of practitioners being paid in the same manner and scale as physicians.
Do Go Be Man
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