College would have been a catastrophe for me without the...

College would have been a catastrophe for me without the understanding and application of Christian Science. I was plagued with a previous record of being a poor student. Even in the fourth grade my parents had debated whether to hold me in the same grade for the coming year, since my grades showed I had not learned what was necessary. Again in high school my IQ test scores and college admittance scores were very low, and the entire situation was depressing to me.

As I entered college, I began a sincere study of Christian Science as I had not done before. I read Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy from cover to cover. I understood that God is Mind, intelligence, the source of true comprehension.

During college, Christ Jesus' words (John 5:30), "I can of mine own self do nothing," became meaningful to me. I was so grateful to know that God is All. My part was to carry out the instruction to Timothy (II Tim. 2: 15), "Study to shew thyself approved unto God." Grades did not seem so important to me as demonstrating the truth of another of Christ Jesus' statements (Matt. 19:26), "With God all things are possible." I had a yearning to grow more in understanding this Science. Before my senior year in college, I was accepted for Christian Science class instruction. Last year I graduated from college with honors and accepted a teaching position in a high school. Academic studies were much easier when I realized one needs to put away the false concepts of many minds, and fear of failure, in exchange for an understanding of man's true nature, reflecting God, who is all-knowing, the one Mind.

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June 5, 1978
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