"Gratitude and love should abide in every heart each day of all the years" (Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy,Art. XVII, Sect. 2). I am grateful for the wonderful privilege of having been reared in a Christian' Science home and for the opportunity of applying its teachings each day.
While I was still a senior in high school, my mother and I began to look forward to my attendance at college. Although we had no idea how this was to be financed, we kept our thinking open to God's goodness. We earnestly felt that a college education, like high school, was part of my school days and would be provided for at the right time. At first a plan was made for me to attend a school for the sons and daughters of Christian Scientists. But our human planning was uplifted by a statement made by my mother's teacher in Christian Science, who pointed out that God's plan is the only real plan and that His love will reveal it. We knew then that I could never be outside Principle, God, and we held to the promise from the words of our Leader, Mrs. Eddy (Science and Health, p. 507), "Spirit duly feeds and clothes every object, as it appears in the line of spiritual creation, thus tenderly expressing the fatherhood and motherhood of God."
Near the end of the high school term, I received from a local university a four-year scholarship, which included full payment for each semester's books. Several years later, during my study for a master's degree at another university, Love's provision was again proved to be abundant.
