I am grateful that Christian Science was introduced to me early in my life, at a time when I felt inconsolable. It has taught me love and appreciation for myself and others, and not to run away from problems, but to enlarge my understanding of God's allness and His love when situations seem insolvable.
Shortly before being introduced to Christian Science I was without adequate income to provide for my baby daughter and myself. As all efforts to gain employment in the field for which I was trained had failed, in sheer desperation I turned to God humbly seeking His guidance. I was willing to let Him govern my life. I accepted housework by the day and attended business school in the evenings. While reading the Bible one evening the words of Psalm 121 took on new meaning. I immediately memorized this psalm and clung to it during gloomy hours, day and night. Not long afterward I took some Christian Science literature from a distribution box at a launderette and read it. Every week while doing the laundry there I read more Christian Science literature. As this reading brought newfound peace and joy, I accepted it without question as God's message to me, and began to ask friends about Science.
After several months I found employment in the business field where I worked closely with an earnest student of Christian Science, who gave me a copy of the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. The very next Wednesday I attended a testimony meeting in a branch church, and the following Sunday I went to the church service and enrolled my daughter in the Christian Science Sunday School. Soon I became a member of the branch church and The Mother Church.
