AN UNEXPECTED SURPRISE

DAVE HOHLE——WESTON, MASSACHUSETTS

MY PATH INTO the Christian Science healing practice has been unexpected and surprising.

Throughout my boyhood I saw the advantages of Christian Science in my life. After graduating from college, I thought it wise to establish my post-college transition in line with God's plan for me. So I called a Christian Science practitioner to help pray for me as I looked for a job and an apartment. Both fell into place pretty quickly.

But that was just the beginning. Over the next few years, I continued to call on the practitioner, and with her support, I gradually "put away childish things" (I Cor. 13:11). In other words, many aspects of my life—moral, physical, spiritual, financial, interpersonal—were uplifted, purified, "squared away." The practitioner was busy, but always patient with me. Once, while waterskiing, I injured my ribs. When I called her to pray for me about this, her question "Were you showing off?" I answered, "I guess I was." She'd immediately discerned the state of my thought, pointing out the importance of checking the quality of one's thinking. Healing came quickly—and I learned something I've never forgotten about expressing God rather than trying to impress people.

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