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Janis Hunt Johnson

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Janis Hunt Johnson began the study of spiritual healing in 1991, when she experienced a dramatic physical healing through prayer alone. In 1995 she completed formal Christian Science instruction in Columbia, South Carolina, with annual refreshers since then.

Janis has worked as a professional writer and editor since 1983, and has run an editing/proofreading business, which she started with her husband (Ask Janis Editorial www.askjanis.com), since 1994. She graduated with a BA in English and Art History from Indiana University (Bloomington), and earned an MLS degree there the following year, working as a librarian at the Art Institute of Chicago while launching her freelance career. For nearly a decade she moonlighted as a singer/songwriter/ Janis Hunt Johnson began the study of spiritual healing in 1991, when she experienced a dramatic physical healing through prayer alone. In 1995 she completed formal Christian Science instruction in Columbia, South Carolina, with annual refreshers since then.

Janis has worked as a professional writer and editor since 1983, and has run an editing/proofreading business, which she started with her husband (Ask Janis Editorial www.askjanis.com), since 1994. She graduated with a BA in English and Art History from Indiana University (Bloomington), and earned an MLS degree there the following year, working as a librarian at the Art Institute of Chicago while launching her freelance career. For nearly a decade she moonlighted as a singer/songwriter/guitarist and recording artist in Chicago and Los Angeles ― with three original albums and an EP to her credit, along with local and national airplay.

In 2005, Janis began studying Hebrew, Torah, and Talmud with Jewish Renewal Rabbi David Zaslow (www.goodreads.com/author/show/1202097...). She continues to be an avid fan of Hebrew and the Scriptures.

Janis Hunt Johnson has published feature articles on the universality of practical spirituality since 1997 for such publications as www.spirituality.com, The Huffington Post (www.huffingtonpost.com), The Christian Century (www.christiancentury.org) and The Christian Science Monitor (www.csmonitor.com). Five Smooth Stones is her first book. It won Finalist, Spirituality category, in the 2010 National Indie Excellence Awards.

An interfaith advocate and spiritual activist, her mission is to teach and heal others through the continued study and practical application of scientific prayer in everyday life — Living Prayer.

Read Janis' blog articles at www.csrenewal.medium.com. Her second book, on the healing power of the Shema prayer (Deuteronomy 6:4), is tentatively titled Seven Words to Freedom, Eight Days a Week: The Healing Power of Living Prayer.

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Five Smooth Stones: Our Power to Heal Without Medicine Through the Science of Prayer

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The Face in the Mirror

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The Grief Recovery Handbook: A Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Devastating Losses

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Things Will Get as Good as You Can Stand: (. . . When you learn that it is better to receive than to give) The Superwoman's Practical Guide to Getting as Much as She Gives

by Laura Doyle (Goodreads Author)

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“And so we have come full circle, and return to the essential question: who are you? From a scientific perspective, you are miraculous. You are stardust. You contain the same energy and matter that created the universe 13 billion years ago. You were once that energy—inside the infinitesimally small point of light that began all of life. Everything around you, everything you can see, touch, and taste, is made of this matter, this same universal energy: the water that shines, the tree that reaches, the bird in flight, the grass that grows. The saints and sages across the ages said it this way: you are brothers and sisters with all of creation. If who you are and how things work are one and the same, then who you are is love.”
― Tom Shadyac, Life's Operating Manual: With the Fear and Truth Dialogues

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“Take the stupidest thing you've ever done. At least it's done. It's over. It's gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it's harder to learn or heal or move on from something that hasn't happened; something we don't know and is therefore indefinable; something which could very easily have been the best thing in our lives, if only we'd taken the plunge, if only we'd held our breath and stood up and done it, if only we'd said yes.”
― Danny Wallace, Yes Man

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