Christian Science came into my life at a time of need. It was an answer to prayer, to my deep yearning to know God better. A friend gave me a copy of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. Reading it, I learned of the motherhood of God, and of God as Mind—totally new concepts to me. I began to read the Bible Lessons in the Christian Science Quarterly. Many articles in the Christian Science periodicals were timely and helpful.
Occasionally, I called a Christian Science practitioner for help in working out a better sense of family, home, and relationships. Clearly, I needed to replace a personal sense of motherhood with a better understanding of God as man's true Parent. One morning, our teen-age daughter left the house and didn't return. I called the practitioner, who shared many statements of truth and assured me that our daughter was God's child, under His care every moment. She also said that there were no runaways in the kingdom of heaven, and that as a child of God, our daughter had an exquisite chaperone. I had been concerned, and now I was being forced to trust God's care of her.
As the days went on, I was encouraged to mentally put the whole family on God's side and to put all the arguments of error on the other side, the outside. It was pointed out that I must expunge the picture of error. There were suggestions of guilt, failure, and fear to be handled. I realized how important it was to keep my thinking Godlike. In reality, as children of God not one of us was guilty. It did no good to blame anyone or to ruminate over the past.
