Living Church every day

By Peggy Koehler

I Joined The Mother Church—The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts—in 1949. My husband and I raised a family of five children, plus foster children, and had many healings through Christian Science treatment and spiritual growth. But I left the teachings of Christian Science in the early 1960s when I was faced with several difficulties that I felt I was not at the time able to overcome by relying on prayer. I felt I had failed God as well as the religion I truly loved.

For many years I didn't attend any church regularly. But I never lost my love for the Bible or Mary Baker Eddy's book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.

When my husband was promoted in his company, we moved to the Chicago area. As we were getting settled there, one of our older children asked if we could go back to our "old" church. That marked a turning point for me—and the beginning of my understanding of Christian Science as a "way of life" rather than just as a religion.

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