"During therapy sessions, I found myself praying"

Who couldn't use more light, more clarity in a time of questioning? And if we are in the middle of our own search for light, it sometimes helps to hear the experiences of other "honest seekers for Truth"^{Science and Health, p. xii.}— as they are called by Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered and founded Christian Science. This column records some experiences that may be useful to those who are looking for new answers. The accounts are anonymous in order to give authors the opportunity to talk freely about earlier lifestyles and attitudes that may have been considerably different from what they now value. Of necessity, the recounting of experiences is telescoped in its time frame, and they do not attempt to tell a complete story. But they do show something of the wide range of seekers and the way in which the light of Christ, Truth, restores, redirects, and regenerates lives.

Since childhood I have enjoyed sharing and passing on what I had learned to other people. Today I see that my interest in other people came from an interest in knowing God.

On Sundays I would go early to a church that was near my house. Most times I would go alone. Today I realize that I was already looking for God as my Father and Mother, as the source of inspiration, respect, peace, and justice. I felt peaceful and close to God there, although only much later, through Christian Science, did the certainty come to me that we always have been and always will be close to God; in fact, we coexist with Him.

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