My progress in overcoming the belief that life is in matter is the result of a long process of spiritual growth. It began twenty-eight years ago when I first asked what the purpose of life is. I later attended Sunday School but apparently did not understand the truth of spiritual being.
At one time I became so depressed that I at first wanted to commit suicide. I recalled a small grain of truth that had been dormant within me. I entrusted myself completely to God in Christian Science and was healed of that destructive tendency within a few days.
However, I allowed my concept of God to drift again until at last I didn't know which way to turn. That was several years ago. Error and truth battled so fiercely within me that I felt torn apart. Remembering my first healing, I again relied unreservedly on the truths of Christian Science, and this Bible passage came to me (Gen. 1:3): "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." The light of Truth dawned. For two days and nights I had been torn back and forth while the prayer of a Christian Science practitioner upheld me. I also had the support of my mother, as well as the firm assurance of my husband, who is not a student of Christian Science.
