"Pilgrim on earth, thy home is heaven; stranger, thou art the...

"Pilgrim on earth, thy home is heaven; stranger, thou art the guest of God." This statement of Mrs. Eddy's on page 254 of Science and Health lifts thought out of a personal, limited sense of life to the reality of being—to God, the source of all supply.

As the child of loving parents I always had a solid concept of the word "home." Although my parents weren't church members, they enrolled me in a Christian Science Sunday School when I was growing up. But in spite of the good spiritual foundation I had received from Sunday School, when I went off to college, I found myself thinking less and less about Christian Science and becoming caught up in various forms of materialism.

During the Second World War, I married a Marine Corps pilot, and later we had a baby daughter, who was born while he was overseas. Again my loving parents provided me with a much-needed home, and I began attending a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, regularly.

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