At one time a student of Christian Science came to the realization that it had been her privilege to grow up in a home where Christian Science was the prevailing thought but that the birth of the Christ, Truth, in her own individual consciousness could come about only through her own clarity of thought and her own practical demonstration of this Science. As years passed and her sincere desire to know more of God deepened, she found that the new birth was taking place daily in her experience.
When she was a child, a subtle suggestion of a dual existence had crept into her thinking. When expressing good, she had been told, "You are God's little girl today"; and when not doing the things she should, she came to feel in her heart that she was error's girl. As her understanding of Christian Science grew, she understood better God's creation. She learned that man does not work out of a mortal existence into the spiritual but has always been the spiritual image and likeness of God. She saw that the only parent was her infinite Father Mother God, and her only family, Love's infinite ideas.
As she awakened to this true conception of spiritual existence, her own identity as a child of God became more evident in her human experience. It was shown in a purer sense of love and a deeper and stronger faith. In this newborn understanding of divine sonship, she was fulfilling Paul's words, "Be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and . . . put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness."Eph. 4:23, 24;
