EVER SINCE I was a small child, I felt like God was always with me. Although I had no ties to any particular religion while growing up, I prayed to God in the same way a child relies on and speaks with a loving parent. About seven years ago, I had to rely on God more than ever when I was going through a difficult divorce. It seemed that simply believing that there is a God "somewhere out there" just wasn't going to cut it.
I knew that my neighbor went to a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. She seemed happy with her life. So one day I asked if I could go with her. That church service was the first time I heard words from the book that would turn my life around—Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
Reading the book for myself started a journey that gradually led to a new way of thinking, to inner peace, and to happiness in all areas of my life. When I started reading "Prayer," the first chapter in Science and Health, I was impressed right away. The ideas were logical. One idea that particularly clicked with me was, "The mere habit of pleading with the divine Mind, as one pleads with a human being, perpetuates the belief in God as humanly circumscribed,—an error which impedes spiritual growth." Science and Health, p. 2. Here was a new way, a different way, of praying. I knew already that this book was unquestionably the truth—the ideas made sense.
