After I graduated from college and spent a year teaching overseas, I found myself back at home with my parents. I had no clue about what to do or where to go next. All my friends had scattered to faraway homes or jobs, so I had no one my own age to hand with. The months stretched by, empty and depressing.
Loneliness and depression definitely aren't good. But they did warn me that I needed to change something. Where could I begin? With prayer, I decided.
Week after week as I was growing up, I'd heard radical and useful ideas in Sunday School. That God is good — that His nature is loving, intelligent, pure, and health-giving. That He is omnipotent and omnipresent — two facts that exclude the possibility of evil or of anything unlike God being real. I learned that each of us is a direct expression of God. We're constantly receiving His goodness, power, and love. These ideas were backed up by powerful statements from the Bible and from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
