I Had Never Felt Anything Like It before—an all-embracing love, so sweetly close, so deeply compassionate and uncondemning that nothing else was real. This tender Presence hit me a few days into a course in Primary class instruction in Christian Science as I was praying alone in my room. I wept for more than an hour.
So this is Love—the divine Love that heals! Years earlier, this Love had lifted me from discouragement to hope and from hope to healing when after three miscarriages I had begun to despair of ever having a family. In desperation, I picked up Science and Health for the first time. No matter that I had decided I was an agnostic. I needed help!
As I read Science and Health, I began to contemplate with newfound wonder the fact that divine Love is everywhere, the source of all good, the only Creator, and the Maintainer of His/Her perfect creation. Simply to catch a glimpse of such ideas began to change my life for the better, loosening the grip of fear, giving me confidence that healing would come—and it did.
