Testimony of Healing September 4, 1995 ISSUE

At age fifteen I became very religious

Mattie Jo Detherage

At age fifteen I became very religious. I asked the question "What is God?" many times, and usually the answer was "God is Love." Then followed my usual question, "If God is Love, why do little children have to suffer? They know no mental ugliness."

I decided that if I should ever find a religion that provided a satisfying answer, that would be my religion, and that would be the only religion I would ever want. By the age of thirty-two I had ceased searching and questioning.

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