People have asked me, how come someone who clearly loves Christ Jesus as much as you do is involved with Christian Science when it isn't even Christian? Of course, right off the bat, I say I feel my religion is preeminently Christian. Then I give some background. I was brought up in the Christian Science Sunday School from the age of 4 years because of my mother being wonderfully healed through reading and pondering "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. Doctors though they kindly tried everything they knew to help her, could not bring about her freedom from a physical condition that had tormented her since her high school days. With two small children to care for on top of being so ill, life was a challenge. At this point, an interested neighbor who had seen her suffering mentioned that she knew people who had been healed through the help of "Science and Health." Mother got the book and began reading and thinking about what it brings out about God and man, and before she was even half-way through, was completely and permanently healed. Her joy knew no bounds! Even though she had been a devout Methodist, she took my brother and me out of its Sunday School and enrolled us in the Christian Science Sunday School, and never looked back. To be raised without fear of getting sick was a blessing beyond price, I can tell anyone.
However, despite many wonderful proofs of God's healing power myself, I wanted to make this religion my own, and not just accept it because that's all I knew. I delved into other religious beliefs, reading much in the world-class Boston Public Library. I came to the conclusion that no other religion than Christian Science took things far enough with respect to really following in Christ's footsteps and doing all he commanded us to do. I'm thinking specifically of Jesus' "Heal the sick" which I do not take to mean, all of you study medicine and become doctors, but to heal the way he healed. I find that the teachings of Christian Science enable me, in a very modest way at this point, to carry out Christ's commands in full. Of course, I am just at the beginning in understanding what I believe he knew about God's laws and man's oneness with God, but I am certain Christian Science has the answer for me.
