I WAS WAITING for my daughter's ballet class to end when a woman walked in with a boy who was about eight years old. When the child walked by me, I heard him saying that the driver of the cab they'd been riding in was afraid of the storm that was coming only because "he didn't know that God's spiritual eye was governing and protecting the whole universe."
That really struck me. So I asked the woman who was with him, "Where did this boy learn these things?" She smiled and took a copy of the Herald from her purse. She said, "Read this and you'll understand why he said that." I started to read the Herald right then, but soon went home. By the time I went to bed I had read the entire magazine, and I thought it was wonderful. The next time I met the woman (her daughter and mine were in the same ballet class), I asked her if she had any more of those magazines, so she gave me another one. When I asked her more questions about Christian Science, she invited me to her home, told me about Science and Health, by Mary Baker Eddy, and taught me how to study the weekly Bible Lessons in the Christian Science Quarterly.
At that time, 1983, my husband worked in São Paulo and only came home on weekends. I subscribed to the Herald, and he would take it with him to read during the week. He was an atheist, but was looking for something on the power of the mind. In this way he began to study Christian Science and to like what he was reading. He thought it would be good for the whole family. Although he wasn't thoroughly convinced, after we had read the Herald for about three months, he allowed us to go to church and take the children to the Sunday School.
