welcome February 24, 2003 Issue

Addiction healed, lives redeemed

Mary Trammell

This week's focus on breaking free of addiction has special meaning for me. That's because my father's healing of alcoholism, chain smoking, and a medically incurable stomach condition, changed the course of his life—and that of our whole family—well over half a century ago.

It was Christian Science that healed my dad. His parents had taken him to a Christian Science Sunday School for a couple of years when he was small. One of their neighbors in Louisville, Kentucky, had been healed of tuberculosis by reading Mary Baker Eddy's book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and they wanted to find out about it. But after a while, my dad's family stopped going.

Over the years, however, my dad never really forgot what he had learned about God's love in that Sunday School. His teacher, Mrs. Caspari, drove one point home indelibly: There will never be any situation, no matter how bad, where God—and Christian Science—can't help you. And heal you.

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