Testimony of Healing February 14, 1970 Issue

After the sudden death of my fiance in an automobile accident I...

Nancy H. Fischer with contributions from Noel G. Fischer

After the sudden death of my fiance in an automobile accident I realized my need to understand much more deeply the real meaning of individual completeness, of home, of purpose. I studied carefully the weekly Bible Lesson, devoured every article on marriage or love in the Christian Science periodicals, prayed diligently to understand the significance of the words in the Christian Science Hymnal—especially those of Mrs. Eddy's poems. But I still found myself jealous every time I saw young couples together. I avoided contacts with my young married friends and began to think seriously about moving to another area of the country, one which was noted for its large number of unmarried men.

It was this latter search that led to my awakening. One evening, while staring at a tempting teaching contract from this distant area, the question came to me, "What is your motive for moving?" I had to answer in honesty, "I am running away to a place where conditions are more favorable." Then came the arresting query that several of Jesus' disciples asked him (John 1:38): "Where dwellest thou?" I had learned the answer in my study of Christian Science: that my home is my consciousness of good, God, and this is with me wherever I may be.

Once I realized that I couldn't run away from my sense of lack, of purposelessness, I also saw that I could find the truth of my completeness, joy, and abundance as the child of God right where I was. I tore up the contract and began an earnest study of man's spiritual completeness.

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