Testimony of Healing January 30, 1995 Issue

When I found Christian Science I was in a state of emotional...

Name withheld

When I found Christian Science I was in a state of emotional desperation. I was involved in premarital sex, smoking, and drinking and felt much lack of direction, sadness, fear, anger, and confusion.

One day I prayed for some sort of way out of this, and very soon afterward a Christian Scientist became my roommate. This living situation at once changed my mental atmosphere, and I began reading with determination the Sentinels I found crowding the bookshelves in our apartment.

I decided to talk to Christian Scientists about my problems, and received much helpful information. The first change I saw was my resolve to break off the premarital sex. My roommate helped me to see that refraining from sex outside of marriage is a protection from both physical and mental anguish, and that in this case I had made myself emotionally vulnerable by engaging in premarital sex. The man I was dating had been hurting me terribly, but the original mistake was my unwise decision to become so involved with him. When I told him about my resolve to end our relationship, I felt very lonely. But a practitioner prayed to help me see that I was already complete, not lacking good in any way. I learned that no person could rule my mind or my body, and that our relationships with each other are happy only as we understand our individual relation to God. I saw that each one of His children is dependent on Him; they are not dependent on each other.

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