ALL LAST SUMMER I had been so looking forward to spending my Labor Day weekend (September 2-3) at my old summer camp in Missouri, the site of the first Spiritual Activism Summit hosted by TMC Youth. However, on the morning I was to get on the plane to fly out there, I woke up and looked in the bathroom mirror. My left eye was swollen to the point that I couldn't open it all the way. It looked quite awful. This had never happened before, and I was immediately struck with fear. One of the thoughts that ran through my mind was that I may have had an allergic reaction to something.
Over the previous three years I had been working toward starting up a Christian Science Organization (CSO) on my college campus in California so students could get together and talk about God and spirituality and how to apply the ideas in Science and Health to life on campus. However, I had never quite been able to get more than one or two students together and never for consistent weekly meetings. It became mildly frustrating. I viewed the upcoming summit as a time to pray about the idea of a CSO and to hear about how others were using Christian Science to bless their college campuses.
But that morning, my plans for a happy weekend at the Summit seemed to fade. Although just as quickly as the fear hit me about my eye, I felt a sense of indignation. Why should I have to deal with something like this, especially on the morning when I am headed off for a weekend of learning more about Christian Science and about my relationship with God?
