COLLEGE WAS an exciting time for me. Life was just opening up, with all of its possibilities, adventures, and deepening relationships. Not least among these widening horizons was my commitment to God and spiritual learning. In fact, I had transferred from one college to another because of some offerings in religious studies that I wanted to pursue. I also became involved in a Christian Science organization on campus.
But then the chance came to take a quarter off from school to live and work in San Francisco with some friends. I was ready to drop all of my campus commitments and head for the freedom and fun of this new opportunity. I had pretty much made up my mind to go, when something happened that changed my mind.
There was a meeting of the Christian Science organization one night, and though I'd had a headache all day, I decided to go. I had been praying for healing, acknowledging that as God's likeness I could no more have pain than God could. But I have to admit that my prayers were pretty self-centered—just an attempt to get myself out of pain so that I could get on with my personal agenda.
