One Sunday, a visitor to my Sunday School class said that she was unfamiliar with what is taught in a Christian Science Sunday School. (Her religious background was non-Christian.) I invited the students to explain briefly why they participate in Sunday School and what they learn in class. Most of them said that they come to find out more about God. Some said that they like to be sufficiently Bible literate and to understand the Bible more fully by exploring it, along with Science and Health, with others. All were convinced that what they learn enables them to deal better with their own challenges and to help their fellowman. One student felt that the lessons he has learned from these two books and subsequent discussions in class have had a healing impact on his thought and behavior. He shared an experience he had had the previous week. He had gotten upset and felt provoked to react in anger but instead responded wisely, and thereby saw a problem solved.
The witnessing of healing is what
truly touches the heart of students.
Perhaps this student had gained a greater insight into the dynamism of divine Love, and a clearer view of his own true identity as a child of God. The answer to the universal question "Who am I?" can be found in a spiritual understanding of our relation to God—our relation to all-inclusive good.
