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Mary Baker Eddy, community builder
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
March is Women’s History Month. This year’s theme in the United States, “Women: Builders of Communities and Dreams,” according to the National Women’s History Project, “honors the spirit of possibility and hope set in motion by generations of women in their creation of communities and their encouragement of dreams.”
A woman who has inspired me to help my community and follow my dreams is Mary Baker Eddy, a well-loved member of her community in Concord, New Hampshire. Her generosity included gifts of hundreds of thousands of dollars to organizations like the Salvation Army, local hospitals, and those involved with disaster relief. She also provided shoes to impoverished children and both initiated and paid for paving the city’s streets.
But what made her loved not just by people in Concord, but also by people around the world, was her discovery of Christian Science.
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