I am most grateful for the increased understanding of God I have gained in Christian Science. I was not raised in Science but nevertheless was given from my earliest days the simple understanding and trust that God is real, all-good, all-knowing, all-powerful, and always present. Yet I lacked the unique spiritual education that Christian Science provides, showing one how to live, day by day, a life stemming from and even proving these facts. God became to me an intriguing but remote concept, something I thirsted to understand fully and many times sought closeness to in prayer, but not a power to turn to for my every need.
When, as an adult, I began to learn something of Christian Science, I glimpsed for the first time that life could, and should, be lived from the standpoint that God truly is real. I felt as though God—the God I first knew as a child— had been given back to me! I was flooded with a great sense of innocency, freedom, and relief. My life was changed. For the truths I have been taught in Christian Science, for the demand Science places upon us to translate these truths into daily living, and for the support it gives to do so, I am most grateful.
Over the Christmas holidays one year, our three-year-old daughter experienced high fever and vomiting. I called a Christian Science practitioner to pray for her and also prayed myself, working in particular with the statement from page 413 of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy: "Mind regulates the condition of the stomach, bowels, and food, the temperature of children and of men, and matter does not." Our daughter was healed within an hour and slept peacefully through the night.
