Article July 21, 2008 Issue

LOVE MOVED ME . . . TO SPAIN

A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PRACTITIONER SHARES HER WILLINGNESS TO JOURNEY WHERE GOD LEADS HER— AND TO EMBRACE THE ADVENTURE EACH STEP OF THE WAY.

TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY SUSIE RYNERSON

Personal Log: Summer 2004. Loving life in Boston. Cannot believe it's been five years since I began my Christian Science healing practice. For fun I'm taking Spanish classes!

That summer, Jesus' parable of the good Samaritan was on my mind. I spent a lot of time helping children study this story of the journeying man who stopped to help a wounded man, while others passed by. This Samaritan even took the man to an inn, giving the innkeeper extra money to care for him (see Luke 10:25-37). And the lesson of the Samaritan extends beyond just loving those who are suffering injury or injustice. It teaches how to love in fresh ways.

Little did I know how the parable's message would play out for me or how rewarding life could be as I deepened my commitment to God and my neighbor. Getting to know God—as Life, as Love itself—illumined the prayer, "Thy will be done" into "Let the will of infinite, vigorous Life be done; let Love's patient, unfailing grace prevail."

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