Christian Science came into my life when I was a teen-ager. I was going from one Sunday School to another, looking for a religion that would satisfy me but finding none. One night I had a date with a young man who was a student of Christian Science. This date was the turning point of my life. He started talking to me of his religion, gave me literature to read, and took me to the church services. I was receptive to this spring of fresh and living water he was presenting to me. I felt like a sponge soaking up all this good. There was never a moment's doubt or question but what this was the truth I had been seeking. Later on I married a devoted student of Christian Science.
After the birth of our first child my husband was uneasy about leaving me alone during the day because I was having frequent fainting spells. I was not regaining my strength or joy. I was greatly depressed. We had wanted to have two children, but because of complications with the first I was fearful that it would be impossible for me to have another child.
One day a friend came to be with me. She immediately saw the state of my thinking. She said I must quit rehearsing verbally and mentally what had happened and stop asking "why," and replace the negative thinking with the spiritual fact that in God's universe nothing unlike good had ever taken place. I was grateful for her loving rebuke and saw that I must take a radical stand for Truth. I did, and that was the last of the fainting spells. I was able to assume my duties of caring for my young son immediately.
