Twenty-three years ago I walked into a friend's garden and there I found, lying on a seat, a little book. I picked it up and immediately became immersed in it. When my friend appeared I said, "What is this book?" Her answer was, "Have you never heard of Christian Science?" That book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, has been with me ever since. To it I owe my knowledge of God, my understanding of the spiritual teachings of the Bible and of the teachings of the Way-shower, Christ Jesus.
My first physical healing was of an injured knee. While riding a bicycle, I ran over a puppy. The puppy was uninjured, but my knee was badly wrenched. I asked the help of a Christian Science practitioner, and in less than three weeks' time the knee was perfectly healed. During that time I walked and did my work as usual, having constantly to go up and down stairs, as there was illness in my home and I was helping to do the nursing.
I am very grateful for this healing, and for many others which I have had in the last twenty-three years, healings of colds, influenza, lumbago, sprained ankle, bronchitis, and other difficulties. Above all, I am grateful for the unfoldment in my consciousness of the true way of living, and for all the blessings that have come to me through that unfoldment: purified thought, the true sense of health, and the realization of divine Love, which, as Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health, on page 494, "always has met and always will meet every human need."
