I love Christian Science. It has been a great joy to be raised in Christian Science and to attend a Christian Science Sunday School.
The lessons I had studied and learned I was abruptly called upon to prove when I was in college. My happy family life and home were broken up, and I was faced with deep disappointments in people, and utter despair and sadness. I had to relearn the facts that our only true parent is the one Father-Mother God and that home is not a material place. Mrs. Eddy tells us in Science and Health that home is heaven (p. 254): "Pilgrim on earth, thy home is heaven . . ."; and she gives "harmony" as part of her definition of "heaven" (see ibid., p. 587). I came to understand these ideas as I never had before. Eventually my hurt feelings were replaced with a deeper respect for relatives, and with love, based on the impersonal love of God.
After college and on my own, I began working. At this time I was faced with another relationship problem. With the help of a Christian Science practitioner, I was able to put aside personal desire and acknowledge that God was governing and guiding my life. He has a plan for each one of us, and we must acknowledge its reality. The practitioner reminded me that I was a "daughter of the King" and endowed with all the qualities befitting that position. Unhappiness, self-will, resentment, and hurt were not part of my being as God's child, and I did not have to suffer. Within a short time after letting go of my own personal desires and concepts of how the situation should work out, I was totally freed from the unhappy situation. I discovered the true freedom that always had been mine but that I had never claimed as my own. The situation did not work out as I had originally desired, but the result was that I met and recently married a wonderful person with similar interests, and our relationship is so harmonious.
