How I Found Christian Science October 15, 2012 Issue

Yielding...but to what?

Laura Remmerde—Bend, Oregon

Jon Remmerde

When I was a child, it seemed that I needed to yield to my parents’ authority. When I became a teenager and left for college, this type of yielding transformed into rebellious anarchy. I decided I would no longer live by the rules of others! Because of the “watch your step or else!” thought of God I had learned as a child, I chose to simply abandon the idea that there was a God. 

This type of rebellion was short-lived, though, and I began a trip around the United States, looking for God in every spiritual community I encountered. I was on the right track with my efforts to “live love,” but I didn’t know the nature of the divine Love that I was seeking.

Christian Science had barely made its appearance in my life just before I went traveling. I’d met a woman who talked to me about it while she painted my portrait. One day, she brought unopened irises from her garden as a gift, and told me to put them in water and watch them open as an illustration of the gentle nature of God’s unfoldment of good. On another occasion, when I was reciting a list of woes, she pointed out how my cat and dog were playing together harmoniously, to wake me up to the incredible good in my life as God’s child. But as yet, I didn’t know it was Christian Science she was talking about. At one point, I asked her if there was a book I could study about the inspirations she’d been sharing. With a smile, she handed me her mother’s copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

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