Living Right-Side Up

In An Upside-Down World

SOUTHBURY — In today’s materially oriented world, people often seem to judge and be judged by “things”: the size of one’s house, the brand of car driven, income. People all over are discovering that a spiritual “right-side-up” perspective rather than an “upside-down” material view of life can provide more peace, more harmony, better health, and a more balanced approach to life.

International speaker Scott Preller says: “The only moments where we find our lives shining with meaning and direction are when we truly are expressing spiritual qualities, such as love, intelligence, honesty, compassion, humility. Then we know we’re really alive. Then we know what real upright living is all about.”

Mr Preller, a practitioner and teacher of Christian Science healing, Bible scholar, and a member of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship, will present a talk titled “Living Right-Side Up in an Upside-Down World,” Sunday, October 28, at 3 pm, at Southbury Public Library, 100 Poverty Road.

In this talk attendees can discover how practical, effective prayer opens the door to freer living.

Mr Preller does not come to his conclusions about spiritual living and healing lightly. He and his family have been actively practicing Christian Science for five generations. Mr Preller’s great-grandfather was healed of a serious heart disease and his grandfather was healed of a shortened leg following a farming accident. Both his father and grandfather were imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II for being Christian Scientists.

Mr Preller served as a chaplain in the United States Air Force. He has been a staff editor for The Christian Science Journal and The Christian Science Sentinel, and his articles have appeared in religious periodicals, local newspapers, and The Oxford Companion to the Bible. Mr Preller has had a deep love of the Bible all his life and earned a master of divinity degree in Biblical Studies at Boston University. He has been in the public healing practice of Christian Science for 15 years, and is also a teacher of Christian Science.

Scott Preller lives in the Boston suburb of Andover, Mass., along with his wife, son, and daughter.

For information, call First Church of Christ, Scientist in Southbury at 262-1944.