Article February 12, 1979 Issue

How I found the truth

Deborah Bitterman

The following is one of a series of articles by young people who have in recent years become students of Christian Science. In these articles they explain how they became interested in Christian Science, what convinced them of its utility and truth, and how its teachings have changed their lives.

Life can be a big happy party. .. until a problem smacks you hard. What do you turn to then? Do you escape somehow until it seems to go away? I used to. Eventually, though, I began looking for a way to meet that problem head-on. Christian Science became that way for me.

You might say I went through three stages in my developing conviction that Christian Science can indeed solve every kind of problem, emotional as well as physical. Phase one took place while I was a very naive freshman in college, desperately hanging on to a self-centered, self-impressed boyfriend. When he told me he wanted to "roam a little," I was flattened. Who would I spend my time with now?

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