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Explore the connections between identity, reformation and prayer

People looking for solutions that bring inspiration, reformation, and meaning to their lives will be interested in an upcoming talk given by national speaker Jon Benson titled "Step Out of Your Story Into Freedom and Healing."

Using a number of healing illustrations, Benson looks at ways a fixation on your personal history enslaves you and your body. He will explore how each can break his story's often punishing hold.

Through personal experience Benson's learned that "allowing the Bible-revealed nature of God and His creation to become truer to us than what our personal histories seem to be turns out to be an act of worship that reforms and heals."

This talk, challenging listeners to step out of their stories and experience healing, will be given at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, at the Batavia Public Library, 10 S. Batavia Ave.

Benson's ideas highlight Jesus' teachings, and borrow from a well-tested spiritual interpretation of his ministry, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, a committed follower of Jesus and a prolific spiritual healer.

Benson has served in a wide variety of fields, from a U.S. Army officer, to a university instructor of public speaking, to a New York-based actor and director in the professional theater, to a managing director of a nonprofit organization providing planning and management facilitation for governments and volunteer organizations in the developing world (including Africa).

Assisting those in the developing world to find and implement solutions to problems, Benson eventually realized there would never be enough human solutions to bandage the world's wounds. Shortly after this, he felt impelled to take up the full-time practice of Christian Science healing turning to divine Mind, God, as the only real remedy.

Benson is a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship. He travels from his home in Los Angeles County, California.

This free talk is sponsored by First Church of Christ, Scientist in Geneva. For information, call (630) 232-2868 or visit christiansciencegeneva.org.

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