Testimony of Healing March 2, 1992 Issue

I began dating in high school

Nancy Joy Potter with contributions from Judson W. Potter

I began dating in high school. It seemed to me that I would probably meet someone—sometime—whom I thought enough of to want to marry. College was completed and I began teaching school: one year, two years, three years, four ....

During this time I was still dating different men. After a while, though, I became tired of the "dating game." It seemed that I would either try to impress someone I wanted to like me or I would mentally "write off" a fellow I'd determined wasn't "the" one. Then there were times when I wondered if marriage was the right goal anyway. Many members of my family had been divorced and remarried—and not always happily. Also, statistics about marriages ending in divorce were disheartening.

I will always be profoundly grateful that my mom enrolled me in a Christian Science Sunday School as a tiny tot. I'd been taught to follow Christ Jesus' teachings to love unselfishly, not to judge others, and to follow God's direction, as when Christ Jesus instructed his followers not to seek after externals, but rather to seek "first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."

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