No problem?

Fiction: “If I read the Christian Science Bible Lesson, go to Sunday School, and pray regularly, then I shouldn’t have any problems.”

Fact: I used to have an underlying belief that I was exempt from the kinds of problems other people faced because I was a Christian Scientist. Maybe it was because I’d had a pretty problem-free life growing up. Maybe it was because most of the problems I did have were dealt with fairly quickly and easily through my parents’ prayers. Maybe it was even the things I’d heard from the adult Christian Scientists in my life—about being perfect as God’s child. 

But I was wrong.

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