Christian Science has brought such a multitude of blessings into my experience that I cannot begin to number them. Very early in my study of Science I was freed from the cigarette habit. Desiring branch church membership, I endeavored to resist the habit humanly. This proved unsuccessful, and I can recall saying to God one day: "I can't, Father. You will just have to help me." This occurred about noon, and the next morning I automatically reached for a cigarette. All sense of enjoyment I had believed I derived from smoking had vanished. I have never since had the slightest desire to smoke.
Some years ago my husband's occupation took us to a midwestern city. This was quite a challenging move in many ways. It seemed necessary for us to give up a wide circle of cherished friends and interests, activity in a loved branch church, and a beautiful home. The temptation to believe that church, home, friends, or right activity had their origin in matter was refuted. The truth that man is God's expressed image, complete, perfect, harmonious, and therefore incapable of losing aught that is real, was claimed.
Soon God's precious promise found in Exodus came to us (23:20), "Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared," and became a staff upon which to lean as each facet of the new experience was exposed. It proved a very rich and rewarding one. Warm and true friendships, the privilege of branch church activity, and the joy of restoring a lovely old house to a state of beauty and hospitality were ours. A later move has but continued to prove that completeness is a state of spiritual being and subject only to the law of harmony.
