Over the past ten years, I’ve gained the most spiritual growth and understanding from attending a Christian Science summer camp for children. Each year, I’ve come home with a new, clearer view of my identity as God’s spiritual reflection.
One year, the summer’s focus was “leaning with meaning,” based on the first line inScience and Health by Mary Baker Eddy: “To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings” (p. vii). During the past few years, I’ve learned how to more effectively lean on our Father-Mother God during the peaks and valleys of life. And when I graduated from college, this phrase taught me new lessons.
Throughout my academic career, I’ve always been an overachiever. I’ve been involved in many activities including band, majorettes, theater, debate, service organizations, dance, and more, and all while keeping up with a full academic course load. I had several exams during college when I leaned solely on God as my source of wisdom and knowledge. As a result, I aced exams in a class that had traditionally been my worst subject. One time, several physical challenges arose during my performance in a college dance production. Each time I felt challenged, I recognized God’s allness and the nothingness of the ailment, and I found I had the freedom of movement and grace that I needed.
