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It is with deep gratitude to God and for learning to pray the way it is taught in Christian Science that I offer this testimony. A number of years ago, our brother left home to go and learn a trade from our uncle in a foreign country.

One early spring evening when my children were young, my eight-year-old son Philip was at his little league baseball game, and my five-year-old son Timmy was playing with a friend on our front porch while I finished washing the dinner dishes. We would soon go to the game as spectators and applauders.

As a child attending the Christian Science Sunday School, it wasn’t hard for me to figure out that the real meaning of Easter had nothing to do with bunnies or chocolates. It also wasn’t just an event that many in the world commemorated once a year at a certain date.

Jesus’ victory over the grave is, of course, the central event of the Easter story. But there are many other inspiring aspects of this narrative as well.

Easter, commemorating Jesus’ resurrection after his crucifixion, is central to Christianity. Before I became a student of Christian Science, I thought Easter was a sad occasion.

In the early dawn one Easter Sunday, my husband and I went quietly to a hill in our town to watch the sunrise. I was thinking about Jesus’ disciples.

Mary Baker Eddy’s poem “Satisfied” records the true nature of God’s idea, man, the spiritual identity of each one of us. Its last verse reads:   The centuries break, the earth-bound wake,      God’s glorified!  Who doth His will—His likeness still—Is satisfied.

Sickness may seem real, but this author shared how her understanding of God helped her “wake up” to what was really real about God, and herself.

“So as we pray, we can gratefully acknowledge that the healing we’re seeking will surely come.”

A high school English teacher of mine earnestly loved and appreciated everything Shakespeare. She had a wonderful talent for instilling that enthusiasm in her students, including me.