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My adult years have been...

From the October 1997 issue of The Christian Science Journal


My adult years have been filled with marriage and family as well as seminary education and ordination as a minister in the denomination I joined with my husband. They have been productive years. Yet there was an inner yearning for something deeper and more satisfying. This hunger led me to a study of prayer, and I began to pray earnestly for that which I knew not. I read scores of books on prayer and participated in extended retreats focused on prayer offered within my denomination.

I would soon discover that the inner yearning was to know God better through prayer, and that this desire was being shaped and directed by God even before I was aware of it.

After I had a routine medical examination a few years ago, one of the tests, a mammogram, left some questions for the doctor. An additional test was made at that time, but the results were no clearer. I was told to come back in a month for additional X-rays. I became extremely fearful, knowing that the tests were to detect cancer. Even though there was no conclusive evidence of it, the fear was intense and grew worse.

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