Testimony of Healing March 19, 1990 Issue

As a child, I struggled with homesickness

Susan C. Stark

As a child, I struggled with homesickness. I was unhappy in places and situations that I should have enjoyed. Because I didn't like to be away from my parents, I wondered if I would be able to attend college anywhere but in my hometown.

It was in a high-school history class that I first learned what Christian Science teaches. The class subscribed to The Christian Science Monitor. Because of my strong interest in knowing more about God, I read the religious article in the Monitor every day. All my previous prejudice against Christian Science left when I saw that this was a teaching that would make me a better Christian. I recognized in Christian Science the Comforter promised by Christ Jesus, "even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father" (John).

Christian Science healed me of the homesickness. I went away to college and lived abroad. In fact, learning of my relation to God has opened up activities that have taken me all over the world. I'm no longer afraid of new places, and I have felt at home and in God's care wherever I've traveled.

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