During turbulent years in Indonesia in the 1960s, when I was a teenager, Christian Science was first introduced to me by a friend from a swimming club who attended Christian Science Sunday School.
The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, tells us, “Every mortal at some period, here or hereafter, must grapple with and overcome the mortal belief in a power opposed to God”.
A few summers ago, while grabbing a towel draped over the railing of our deck, a splinter of wood went under one of my fingernails and lodged between the nail and the flesh of my finger.
O daughter of Zion, awake from thy sadness; Awake, for thy foes shall oppress thee no more;And bright o’er thy hills dawns the daystar of gladness; Arise, for the night of thy sorrow is o’er.
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