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Volunteering at church gave me something to sing about
Originally appeared on spirituality.com.
I couldn’t sing. The only key I knew was “off-key.” And while it might not seem like a big deal, in my family—where my mother and all my cousins had musical talent—it was. My lack of singing ability was a great disappointment to my mother, who had a marvelous voice and was well known as a soloist.
However, as beautiful as my mother’s voice was, my dad’s was equally as bad. At the time, our family just accepted the suggestion that the inheritance of talents was a gamble and that I had inherited from the “wrong” parent in this case.
Years later, I was introduced to Christian Science and started to learn about another Parent, our Father-Mother God, and Her perfect gifts. But singing was not something I had put to the test of this Science, even though I'd read many times Mary Baker Eddy’s clear statement in Science and Health: “Heredity is not a law” (178).
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June Sullivan lives in Lawrence, New York, United States.
