The most inspiring experience of my life was the period spent in taking Primary class instruction in Christian Science. As a teen-age girl I had been a student in the Christian Science Sunday School and had been given loving encouragement and help over the years from a dear friend, who was a Christian Science practitioner. Then a time came when I found I had to work out my own salvation. Problems seemed insurmountable. One of my sons grown to young manhood was desperately ill. My husband's business failed due to inner city development projects, and we seemed to be in very grave circumstances. I was afraid. I had many lessons to learn to find my way out of this human sense of suffering to the freedom of spiritual sense.
Mrs. Eddy's words from the Christian Science textbook were always with me, as I daily tried to know God better (Science and Health, p. 209): "Spiritual sense is a conscious, constant capacity to understand God." The thought came to me to apply for class instruction. Fear and doubt suggested that it was not a good time: "Wait another year!" One morning I opened my Bible, sincerely asking the Father to show me how to go, and I read from the book of Isaiah (30:21), "Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it." With a wonderful sense of joy and freedom I went forward. Great inspiration and blessings followed. Most wonderful of all was the feeling of having found the Christ.
At one time our son was unconscious. We had been told that it was unlikely he would recover. I sat at his bedside in the early morning hours, and my thought became uplifted with the beauty of the sunrise as I watched it from the window. The truth expressed in an article I had read on the activity of the Christ came vividly to my thought One thought in particular filled my consciousness with real meaning: that the Christ is the presence of the power of God and the power of the presence of God. All fear for my son departed. An indescribable sense of peace came over all. That day our son regained consciousness, and was soon back to normal activity. This healing experience brought joy and gratitude to my family and gave us a clearer understanding of God's allness.
