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Years ago my wife and I traveled to the state of Washington to spend the summer as campground hosts at Mount Rainier National Park so that I could make the two-day climb of the mountain. As a 30-year-plus resident of Colorado, I’d lived “at altitude”—most recently at 9,200 feet on a mountain near Denver.

I’ve always been deeply grateful that I was born into a home where Mary Baker Eddy was revered and Christian Science was studied. Our family had many proofs of its healing power.

Like Mary Baker Eddy, I too am a daughter of New England. I grew up in Massachusetts, and vacationed in New Hampshire and Maine.

I love Mrs. Eddy’s understanding of God as Father-Mother; that Jesus Christ is not God in a human form, but is the Son of God, as Jesus himself said in the Bible.

Mary Baker Eddy’s single-minded willingness and desire to obey God has anchored my own life. Although it was difficult for many of my friends to comprehend, I was raised in a household without medicine, and, much more important, without fear.

We acknowledge God’s forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts.

The Mother Church receives many appreciative letters and e-mails each year from new members of the Church. Nathan Talbot, the Clerk of The Mother Church, received the following e-mail from a new member, a former  Trappist monk who is currently employed in environmental services at a hospital and is aspiring to be a Christian Science nurse.

We have all the love we will ever need in God’s divine economy.

Facing down the seeming reality of the material senses with Truth.

Pain is eliminated when we understand that thought, not the body, produces it, and that pain is no part of the divine Mind, God, whom we reflect.