I am grateful for the dozens of demonstrations of God’s presence in my life resulting from my study of Christian Science, and I believe it is time I submit a testimony in gratitude.
When I graduated from UC Berkeley, I enlisted in the Peace Corps in the Fiji Islands. I was stationed on an outer island, where I worked as a forester during the week, and on weekends I would often go to one of the local villages to join in taking a small boat out to spear fish for the village’s food supply.
One Saturday four of us were spearfishing on one of the outer reefs with great success. As it got later in the day, the wind started to come up, and our boat couldn’t really hold any more fish, so we decided to return to the village. But as one of my friends tried to start our outboard engine, it became obvious that the engine had a problem. The wind had caused us to drift out to a small semi-submerged sandbar, so we were able to anchor the boat while my friend worked on the engine.
