I used to like to go out with my friends to drink and pursue worldly pleasures, even when I was married. This went on for many years.

For many years I was a fearful person. Many fearful thoughts would come into my mind related to the present and future.

For a long time, I have wanted to pay a long-standing debt of gratitude by testifying to the marvelous events that have occurred since I became acquainted with Christian Science. When I found Science about ten years ago, I had been suffering for a year from acute abdominal pain that got worse as time passed.

For as far back as I can remember, I have always felt God’s presence. As a little girl, I loved to go to Sunday School.

I wasn’t the least bit interested in religion. It surely wasn’t for me, or so I thought.

When I was a little girl, my grandmother gave me a pendant that had been hers as a teenager. As I grew up, I always remembered the tiny mustard seed that was suspended within it.

When I was in middle school, I began asking deeper and deeper questions about God. I had been given a Bible, which I revered greatly, but I didn’t really understand it, although I loved the psalms and parts of Isaiah.

I was brought up in a belief system that said that I was a sinner from birth and that I was flawed. The God that I learned about was loving, yet judgmental.

My introduction to Christian Science was the fulfillment of the biblical promise “Ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart” ( Jeremiah 29:13 ). Many years ago, when my father was ill and not expected to survive, I began to think deeply about the meaning of life, and wonder who we really are and what our purpose is for existing.

I started studying Christian Science in 2014. For about four years prior to this, I felt God actively leading me.