It was 1977. I was in a deep depression, and I didn't even recognize the symptoms. I just knew that something was terribly wrong. I was in a marriage that wasn't working, struggling to care for two small children. I couldn't even take care of myself anymore.
Maybe I shouldn't have felt so hopeless. Growing up, I'd learned in Sunday School that I could trust God. But in all that time, I'd never really discovered God for myself. That didn't mean God wasn't caring for me, though. God really was listening to my silent cries for help, and one day I tangibly felt the presence of God as Love. It was as though I could feel God's grace, responding to my deep desire to understand what life was all about. This new realization that Love was always with me was so clear that the depression left in an instant. I found that I could now take care of my children and myself.
But I needed to know more. So I went on a broad search for spirituality. I read everything I could: the Bible, current bestsellers on spirituality, sacred texts from different faith traditions, even books on quantum physics. But I kept coming back to Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. What I discovered was that the other books only touched on different aspects of the spiritual ideas in Science and Health. None of them covered the whole ground of spirituality and healing the way Science and Health did.
