There are so many things I loved about attending the Christian Science Sunday School: the pure and holy atmosphere, the opportunity to delve into the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, and the spiritual lessons I learned. Sunday School was a place where I was encouraged to take these spiritual lessons and apply them to my life.
One such lesson came when I was in middle school. On one particular Sunday, I had a substitute teacher. When I arrived at Sunday School and saw the substitute teacher, I was crushed. I adored my regular Sunday School teacher, who was young, kind, and a good friend of my mother’s. I thought my regular teacher was really cool. The substitute, however, was much older, and, besides, she just wasn’t my regular teacher.
During Sunday School that day, this substitute teacher shared a healing she had had of a long-standing habit of smoking cigarettes. I was surprised because I couldn’t imagine someone like her ever smoking cigarettes. She shared how she was healed with spiritual truths she had learned and applied from the Bible and from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. That left a deep impression on me. I still adored my regular Sunday School teacher, but now I liked my substitute teacher too.
