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I grew up in Christian Science and joined The Mother Church when I was 12. A few years later, when I was a university student, I was backpacking in Greece and was in Athens on a Sunday.

During my senior year in high school, I was preparing for college in many ways. I felt one of the most important ways I could prepare was to become a member of The Mother Church.

The first year I attended college, I became active in the Christian Science organization (CSO) on campus. One day, The Mother Church sent a Christian Science practitioner to meet and talk with us.

I joined The Mother Church when I was in my teens. I had attended Sunday School and had some great healings.

Practitioners and Patients. Members of this Church shall hold in sacred confidence all private communications made to them by their patients; also such information as may come to them by reason of their relation of practitioner to patient.

Waking up early, I heard fierce winds pounding against the house. I was booked on a flight to Mexico that day for a Christian Science lecture tour, so I lay in bed quietly praying.

In order to neutralize a poison and destroy its effects, one needs the precise antidote. Who would deny, then, that the world needs the precise antidote for the poison of willpower? 

It’s widely known that ghosts and goblins aren’t real. But what about the “ghouls” of sickness, lack, and discord? 

While dining out one evening at a restaurant in a small town, my mother noticed that the service was quite slow. A server then confided to her that they were short staffed that night.

It can be easy to forget or brush off the "small" healings we experience—but I've learned that it is so important to acknowledge all our victories in Christian Science.