In my childhood I was surrounded with fear, medical beliefs and laws, domestic misery, suspicion and bitterness, ill health and apprehensions. My young womanhood was colored with much of the same. Then I halfheartedly attended a Christian Science service with a relative. I was given a copy of the Journal as I left.
Sometime later I was led to choose a name from the list of practitioners in it and to go to her with my long list of worries and ills and confusions. That was the beginning of a long, slow process of emerging from material beliefs to a glimpse of spiritual understanding.
I was subsequently married. A few years later I was left alone with two young children to rear and support against a background of many complications. Through Christian Science I have successfully overcome self-pity and have kept out of the children's experience the bitterness and resentment with which my own young life had been blighted. A home has been maintained which has from time to time been a haven for others too. The impartial love reflected in warmth of welcome and hospitality has been made possible by my reliance on God for supply.
