Wandering down memory lane, revisiting my Sunday School days, I’ve realized just how valuable the time I spent as a student in the Christian Science Sunday School was. Every Sunday morning Dad would back the Ford Falcon out of the garage and shout, “Hurry up, we can’t be late, I’m ushering today!” My brother and I would come running out of the house carrying our Sunday School books, the Holy Bible and Science and Health with to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy.
On the way to church, we would probably be thinking of things like what kind of penny candy we would pick out at the corner store after church or whether Dad would take us for a ride in the rowboat later on. When we arrived at Sunday School, however, there were more important things to think about. We were learning what it meant to be a spiritual child of God and that an understanding of this would bring healing to problems we might encounter on life’s journey.
The subject of God was such a big one, but Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science, made it easier to understand with her definition of God: “The great I am; the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal; Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love; all substance; intelligence” (Science and Health, p. 587).
