I can recall when I didn't think I would ever really live the life of a Christian Scientist. About five years ago it seemed I was wrapped up in many things that one would consider immoral—including lying, fighting, a general disregard for law, smoking marijuana, and drinking. Even though I had been raised in Christian Science, my state of thought wasn't at all what it should have been. I felt I had important things to take care of—like living on my own and working at my job. But it also seemed that I had stopped trying to live according to my highest sense of right.
What I didn't realize at the time was that Truth is present and working all the time. It never stops. My ability to do what was right and to understand God had never really left. It was just kind of clouded over.
After a while I figured I should probably go back to Sunday School; I'd be twenty in another ten months.
Editors' Note: Young people may attend a Christian Science Sunday School up to the age of twenty. I didn't want to regret missing my last bit of time in Sunday School like I had in high school (I quit school when I was seventeen).
