Testimony of Healing December 10, 1979 Issue

As a child and teen-ager I had a smattering of...

ANDREA E. STROM

As a child and teen-ager I had a smattering of Christian Science. I attended the Sunday School from time to time. After graduation from high school, I quickly abandoned the teaching and became deeply involved in the drug scene with its accompanying immorality. Although during high school I never drank, smoked, or used drugs, it seemed as if all my purity left me at the age of eighteen.

During the time of this immoral living, which included using and selling drugs, as well as stealing and all forms of loose living, I still read from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. There was something in these books that encouraged me when I felt down, even though, as yet, I didn't know what it was.

I met, lived with, and married a man who was also deeply involved in the same life style. During the second year of our marriage we were given a "gift" of LSD. It was considered to be more potent than any we had previously taken. At this point I was not unhappy with my life style. I felt that I enjoyed taking drugs and drinking. There were no "bad trips" for me, and there seemed to be no reason to turn from drug use. And yet right in the middle of an eighteen-hour LSD trip, came a quiet thought within consciousness: "If this is all there is to it, you don't want it anymore." Well, I didn't comprehend this. But a few seconds later another more pointed idea came: "Christian Science holds all the answers that you seek."

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