Once, years ago, after my annual Christian Science students’ association meeting, my Christian Science teacher (with whom I had gone through Primary class instruction in Christian Science) asked if I would help her carry some things to her apartment nearby. As we walked and talked, suddenly she stopped, reached into her purse, and pulled out a rather large address book. It was rubber banded together and had bits of paper poking out in every direction.
“You’re all in here, you know,” she said. I knew she was referring to the contact information for each of her students. Then she said quite cheerily, “You know, I pray for you all. All the time.”
I was stunned. There were nearly five hundred members of our association. When I asked how and when she had time, she mentioned all kinds of everyday situations: standing in line at the grocery store, waiting for the elevator in her apartment building, walking to her office.
