CHRISTIAN SCIENCE came into my life when I was a teen-ager, and I shall ever be grateful to the woman who told me about the Christian Science Sunday School. I had been earnestly praying to God to show me how to be good, and after one visit to the Sunday School I felt that God had answered my prayer. I had several healings and was so convinced that Science was what I wanted that I said to a girl friend that I would never marry anyone who would prevent me from living Science in my home. Since I had taken that stand, it was not surprising that I had the happiness of establishing a home with a fine Scientist. For many years Christian Science has been our daily joy, healing us, leading us into interesting professional work and travel, and helping us to rear our two children.
Two healings stand out as particularly beneficial to me. At one time, many years ago, I injured a rib. From the evidence, the rib was broken. I asked for Christian Science treatment because the pain was severe. A week passed with little physical relief but with a desire, ever stronger, to trust God. It seemed as if I had two streams of thinking: one filled with great distress and the other certain that something very wonderful was being worked out. It was like looking for a dawn which I knew was coming.
One day a member of the household, not a Scientist, came into my room and spoke sharply about my not doing anything to take care of myself. After a tirade of criticism, she left, and I was overcome with self-pity. I knew this was wrong; so I reached out to God with all my heart. It came very clearly to my thought that I was expecting more of her than of myself. I wanted her to be loving and understanding, while I was indulging in very unscientific thinking about her. I could see that it was not what she or the neighbors or the relatives were thinking about me that was keeping me bedridden; it was what I was thinking about them. A great sense of love came to my innermost thought. I was immediately healed. I arose and dressed. Minutes before I was in pain; now I moved freely.
