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A FREE Christian Science lecture by Stormy Falso, CSB "DISCOVER YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD: THREE SIMPLE QUESTIONS" Saturday, November 16, 11 am Heritage Sandy Springs 6110 Bluestone Rd, Sandy Springs 30328 Stormy Falso, a practitioner and teacher of Christian Science, will share inspiring accounts of healing through prayer and show how you can prove for yourself the healing truths in the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. A repeat of the lecture on Sunday will include extra time for questions. Child care will be provided on Sunday. Sunday, November 17, 2 pm Second Church of Christ, Scientist 347 Carpenter Dr NE, Sandy Springs 30328 (one block from Comfort Inn, near 1-285 and Roswell Rd) For more information: call the church 404-364-9642, or visit the web site: www.SecondChurchAtlanta.org FAITH Healed heart: Woman depicted in iconic photo speaks at Holy Innocents’ BY DAN WH1SENHUNT danwhisenhunt@reporternewspapers.net The picture of a 9-year-old Kim Phuc, naked and screaming as napalm singed skin from her body, remains a po tent symbol of senseless conflict. Phuc on Oct. 23 told a group of Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School stu dents that while the Pulitzer-prize win ning photo is forever burned into the historical record of the Vietnam War, her anger is not eternal. She forgives the pilots who dropped napalm on her village, Trang Bang, in 1972. She forgives the communist gov ernment that forced her to drop out of medical school so she could serve as a prop for its propaganda machine. In time, she even grew to love the people who had wronged her. “It sounds easy, but it wasn’t,” Phuc told students gathered in the school’s Fine Arts Building. “It was the hardest work of my life, but I did it. If I can do it, I believe all of you here can do it too, right?” Phuc becoming a Christian was the first step in her lifelong journey toward healing her heart. She recalled her reaction to reading Luke 6:27-28, which says, “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.” “Do you know how difficult that is?” she said. “I didn’t know how to do it. It seemed impossible. I had a lot of scars. I had endured so much pain emotional ly and physically. At first I thought, ‘No way, Jose. Phuc, aware that the “No way, Jose” expression would sound dated to her young audience, smiled and said, “You use that, right?” She recalled the events leading up to the moment Associated Press photogra pher Nick Ut snapped the photo. On June 8, the villagers were told to hide in the local temple. Phuc thought the temple, a sacred place, was safe. She was wrong. “It was only when the soldiers yelled for us to run that we got really scared,” she said. “The airplanes were so loud and so close. We were running up the road. Most of the children ran first and sud- BH HS BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY Home Services Georgia Properties BHHSGeorgia.com SOLD BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HomeServices It’s A Sign Of Quality For Real Estate. “A home is one of the most important assets that most people will ever buy. Homes are also where memories are made and you want to work with someone you can trust.” WARREN BUFFETT, CHAIRMAN Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Prudential Georgia Realty is proud to announce that on December 10, 2013, we will have a new name: BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HomeServices Georgia Properties That’s a good sign for the market and a great sign for you. Good to know.™ BHHSGEORGIA.COM | 770.992.4100 ©2013 An independently operated subsidiary of HomeServices of America, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate, and a franchisee of BHH Affiliates, LLC. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices and the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices symbol are registered service marks of HomeServices of America, Inc* Equal Housing Opportunity. Equal Housing Opportunity. 14 | NOV. 1—NOV. 14,2013 | www.ReporterNewspapers.net