There is much truth in the Bible verse (Prov. 22:6), "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." I was raised in Christian Science and attended the Sunday School till I was twenty. It was this training that I was later to fall back on.
During my upbringing I witnessed and experienced many physical healings in our home and had several outstanding instances of protection. However, when I was on my own, I allowed myself to get wrapped up in the materialism of the times and stray far from the teachings of Christian Science. As I continued this style of living, everything in my life began to come apart. I couldn't understand what had happened to the security and peace I had known as a child. I felt I didn't belong anywhere. Sinking deeper into self-pity, I began to think of ways to end my life. It seemed there were no solutions to the problems I had gotten into.
As a last resort, I began attending a Church of Christ, Scientist. The warmth and love expressed there made me want to belong, and I took steps to join. Yet I knew my way of living had to change first, a problem I wasn't sure how to solve.
