IT'S NEVER, 'BEEN THERE, DONE THAT'

FELICE MEYER—NEW YORK, NEW YORK

I WAS THE LAST PERSON in the world who ever thought she'd be a Christian Science practitioner. I'd loved Christian Science since the day my mother brought me as a three-year-old to Sunday School. My parents were not Christian Scientists, but because I had been healed instantly through Christian Science of a severe ear infection when the doctor could not stop the pain, Dad insisted I go to a Christian Science Sunday School.

One Sunday, I came home to find my dad sitting in a chair with his head back and tissues stuffed up his nostrils. He was having one of his usual nosebleeds. Typically he asked me (to be sure I had been good that morning) what I had learned. We had been taught a little saying which I repeated to him. "There is no spot where God is not." Having done my duty, I went upstairs. Dad was stunned. He had never thought of God in this way. It changed his perspective. He said he got up and realized the bleeding had stopped; he never had another nosebleed again. After that, my parents joined the church, and that's how I came to grow up in Christian Science.

My happiest times during school, college, and career were always spent learning more about God and His spiritual creation, and doing church work such as Sunday School teaching, Christian Science Organization work, and committee work. But I always considered myself a worker bee, not headed toward the public healing practice.

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