When I was a child I had the privilege of attending a Christian Science Sunday School. Later I drifted away from Science, but I shall always be grateful for the excellent grounding in its teachings which I received in Sunday School, for they stood by me and helped me in many ways during World War II. Towards the end of the war, unhappiness and a sense of insecurity caused me to start attending Christian Science church services. The sense of peace I obtained there helped me greatly and in due course turned me back to the wholehearted study of this great Science. Since then much joy has come into my life, bringing a new interest in everyday things and a far greater sense of security.
In recent years I have had frequent opportunities to find a new home for myself, sometimes in unfamiliar places. I have learned that a right understanding of home is most important to one's spiritual growth. In this connection I have learned that one's true home has nothing to do with a material structure, locality, or a bank balance; that it is in fact his consciousness of his inseparability from God, good. Insofar as I have understood and been willing to claim all that is man's by reason of his relationship to God, my home has improved in every way.
A right sense of companionship has also been gained. At one time, when I was unable to overcome a feeling of great loneliness, it was pointed out to me by a Christian Science practitioner that I should claim companionship as a spiritual quality, which is part of the real man. I studied again the definition of man given by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in which she says (Science and Health, p. 475), "He is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas." Thus I saw that companionship with all that is good is already part of the real man; consequently, instead of having to seek it, I already had it and could express it. The loneliness was healed, and many new friendships have been formed through this change of thought.
