It is long past due for me to share my gratitude. Fifty years ago, while a senior in high school, a friend gave me a copy of the Christian Science Sentinel. Coming from a nonreligious background, I wanted to know more about what this Christian Science was all about, so I went to the library and looked up a book on American religions. Remarkably, the book I found included Mary Baker Eddy’s spiritual interpretation of the Lord’s Prayer in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. When I got to the part that said, “Thy kingdom is come; Thou art ever-present,” I burst into tears (see Science and Health, p. 16). The sense of God’s omnipresence was overwhelming.
I asked my friend if I could start attending his Sunday School—and I never looked back.
My first physical healing came soon after I started attending Sunday School. I was the assistant to the high school cross-country and track coach, rather than running myself, because I was in pain whenever I tried to run, which a doctor had said was the result of loose cartilage in my knee. After learning more about Christian Science, I decided that if it was true, then I would prove it by being able to run.
