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Created: 7/15/2002
Twenty years ago, Nannette Thacker was living in a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. She was working as a typographer - someone who does professional typesetting and layout on a computer system. 1982 was a turning point in Nannette’s life. She was an atheist and was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa. She was suffering from blackouts due to malnutrition and went to see a biofeedback specialist. The specialist said that her stress levels were higher than any she’d ever seen. The insurance refused to pay the bills until a waiting period of 3 months, so she stopped seeing the specialist and said she’d return in 3 months. The specialist suggested she adopt a vegetarian diet, which she did.
One morning Nannette woke up and looked up to heaven and said, ‘Is this all there is?’ At work, a friend said, ‘I know what you need, but you’ll laugh.’ Nannette told her to go ahead and tell her, and she wouldn’t laugh. Her friend said, ‘You need to read the Bible.’ So Nannette went home and dug her Bible out of a box in storage. She started with Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and found it boring. She decided to read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. She called her mother on the phone and said, ‘Mom, you’re not going to believe this, but all the books in the New Testament have exactly the same stories!’
She decided she needed to attend a church, so she looked in the phone book and found a church down the street - Framingham Seventh-day Adventist Church. She attended the church that morning and during the service the pastor announced that there was going to be a potluck that day. She began slowly leaving the church hoping that someone would invite her to stay. She pleaded with God, ‘Please have someone invite me to stay.’ Just as she opened the door to leave, a man approached her and asked her to stay for the potluck. She replied, ‘But I don’t know anybody.’ He replied, ‘My name is David Beal, now you know someone.’
She attended Camp Meeting that summer and when she returned, was baptized in July. After the three months, she returned to the specialist. The doctor hooked her to the biofeedback machines and said, ‘This is the lowest stress level I have ever seen! What have you been doing the past 3 months’’ Nannette replied, ‘I found God.’
