Of Good Report

One morning a friend contacted me and said that his son, a friend of my son’s, had run away after they’d had a fight. He wondered if my son or I might know where he was.

I remember the first time I washed feet. In my early teens, I’d been asked to help take care of my grandma whom I was living with at the time.

Throughout my life, I have experienced many wonderful healings. I grew up with Christian Science and my mother is a Christian Science practitioner.

This term usually reminds me of sports. Athletes often refer to being “in the zone” when they are so mentally focused on what they are doing that they, for example, break a record in track, hit a home run or pitch a shutout in baseball, or achieve a personal best score during a figure skating competition.

When I worked as an intern for The Mother Church in 2022, I was part of a team that reached out to students in Africa to encourage them to start Christian Science organizations (CSOs) in their schools. The aim of these organizations is to support spiritual growth, healings, and service to others and to foster a deeper understanding of what Christian Science is all about.

More than a year ago, I had an interview at a consulate in my hometown for the purpose of getting a visa for an overseas trip. After my visa application was approved, I was told to go back to the consulate the following week with my letter of approval in order to retrieve my passport and visa.

God does indeed bring together need and supply for the universal good.

During the early 1990s, I worked in the Civilian Personnel Policy Division of the Office of the United States Secretary of Defense. We developed policies and programs, and proposed legislation for the Department of Defense’s nearly 800,000 civilians.

My husband and I were nearing our retirement years, and I knew we needed a change so that we could retire. We both worked heavy-labor, low-paying self-employed jobs that offered no benefits, and we also had no savings.

After 25 years of dedicated employment, I, along with roughly three fourths of my associates, was informed that we were being released from our professional positions at the institute at which we worked. Prior to our release, there had been an accelerating amount of political turmoil both within and without our place of work, and I had become increasingly dissatisfied with deteriorating conditions that were stifling my ability to implement more creative and effective techniques to uphold a high standard in my work.