When I was five years old I asked my mother, "Why don't we heal the sick as Jesus has told us to do?" My mother's explanation that spiritual healing was only for the time of Jesus and his disciples was something I could not accept. Later, at the age of twelve, I heard a doctor laugh at a woman who, he said, thought the sick could be healed by prayer. I did not succeed in meeting this woman, and it was many years later that I had an opportunity to visit a Christian Science Reading Room when I was temporarily in a city. Of course I met kindness and received satisfying answers to my many questions. That was the beginning of much blessing for me and my family.
Later, after the passing on of my husband, I had two weeks in a Christian Science House for rest and study. Then I had to return to an empty farmhouse in an isolated country place. But divine Love was there. I lived with the Lesson-Sermons, outlined in the Quarterly, and the Christian Science Hymnal as my constant companions, and it was then that I had a healing of lack, which was so complete that I have never again feared it. I saw clearly that renovations which I wished to make to the house were legitimate human needs, which could be supplied through the influence of divine Love understood. Inside a week I had the necessary money, which came in a natural way, yet in a quite unexpected manner. Also, the necessary help came to me, and the skilled work was carried out quickly and satisfactorily.
After that, my son and I were wonderfully protected during the sale of the farm and the investment of the money in a house with three apartments. We were led to a beautiful, spacious house in the city in which my son works.
