My marriage did not begin with enough money for us to live...

Pinata Darmadi

My marriage did not begin with enough money for us to live on. Instead my husband and I started off deeply in debt. His desire to help a relative put us behind about eighteen million rupiahs—a very large amount of money he'd borrowed from two sources.

I was not shocked when he told me honestly about the debt prior to our wedding; instead we put our heads together to see how we were going to repay it. At the time I was brand-new to the study of Christian Science. In my native language we refer to a marriage as a "household boat," and I realized that a happy one requires one helmsman. I was prepared to steer the boat we were building with the compass of Christian Science; in other words, to make God the only helmsman.

Though lacking in spiritual understanding, I followed what I knew of Christian Science. At first I didn't understand a thing, but my husband advised me simply to study the Bible and Science and Health, and said that if I needed understanding, God would communicate it to me. I faithfully attended church and gradually began to understand this blessed teaching.

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