Article May 6, 1996 Issue

FOR TEENAGERS

The fearless years

Joanne Bennett

It's awful to be afraid. And when you're a teenager, not only does it feel awful, it can be embarrassing. When I was a teenager, I learned that I didn't have to live with fear. The Christian Science Sunday School was helping me understand that fear is no real power at all. I was also gaining a surer sense of my relation to my one, true Father-Mother—God.

This realization was really important to me because in about a year's time my dad had died and my mom remarried. This threw my life into a tailspin. Every aspect of my life seemed unsettled. It was at this point that Christian Science came into my life and rescued me. My stepfather wasn't a Christian Scientist, but he decided my sister and I should learn about Christian Science in honor of my Christian Scientist grandparents, whom I saw about once a year. He respected them greatly. I knew nothing about Christian Science, and at first Sunday School seemed just another part of an unwelcome experience. Although my stepfather didn't remain a part of our lives (he and my mom were soon divorced), the wonderful revelation of Christian Science he introduced to us did remain.

Christian Science, or God's law of good as found in the Bible, rescued me by helping me to understand that God was really fathering and mothering me. I was learning that God is my true Parent, and man is His loved child, made in His image. He loves each of us so very much. It is never His will that anything bad happen to us.

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