After an accident last year, when I seemed unable to study, my thought turned toward the healings I had previously experienced in Christian Science. I was reminded of how, when Christ Jesus healed ten lepers, only one turned back to give glory to God, and I realized I am indeed richly blessed. This helped me recover from the accident.
Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (p. 407), "Man's enslavement to the most relentless masters—passion, selfishness, envy, hatred, and revenge—is conquered only by a mighty struggle." Christian Science has taught me to replace hatred with kindness.
Before I was born, both my sisters died. My father's conduct had contributed to their early death. He was an alcoholic and gambled. I was taken away from home when I was five and could go to school. There was great lack. I knew great fear as a baby and, until I was healed in Christian Science, I hated my father. Later I was timid, full of self-pity, and unhappy with other children. After leaving school at twelve I went to an orthodox Protestant church a few months, but nothing helped me permanently.
