Thanks be to God for leading...

Anthony Budnik

Thanks be to God for leading me to Christian Science. I did not hear of this religion until I got a job at a place where the manager was a Christian Scientist. This man's Christian living, and his talks to me about the truth which Science teaches, broke my materialistic outlook on life in the two and a half years that I worked for him. I was enabled to see, though dimly, the spiritual nature of life. During the more than twenty years since then Science has been my trustworthy guide and Comforter.

The greatest joy I am experiencing through my understanding of Christian Science is in my spiritual progress. But I have been much benefited physically, too. Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health (p. 463), "A spiritual idea has not a single element of error, and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive." Not long ago, through the understanding that there is no sensation in mater, I was healed of what I believe was athlete's foot. Two summers ago my right arm was sore for several weeks. This soreness, which I thought might have been caused by overwork, was, however, healed while I was working still harder, when I realized that matter cannot experience fatigue. Our Leader writes (ibid., p. 217), "The scientific and permanent remedy for fatigue is to learn the power of Mind over the body or any illusion of physical weariness, and so destroy this illusion, for matter cannot be weary and heavy-laden."

Christian Science enabled me to stop drinking coffee and tea at least ten years ago. It has made me a much better man than I was before. It has changed my dark, material thinking, the concomitants of which are fear, hate, jealousy, and ignorance, into enlightened right thinking, the blessings of which are courage, love, joy, and spiritual understanding. My former gloomy existence has become joyous, expectant living. In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 171) Mrs. Eddy says, "To-day is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: 'And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.'"

I am deeply grateful for all the comfort and healings that I have received through Science. I am humbly thankful to our beloved Leader for giving us this beautiful and practical religion, and to the practitioners who pointed out the truth to me and gave me encouragement when I was not yet firmly grounded in the teachings of Christian Science. The blessings of membership in The Mother Church, class instruction, and the inspirational association meetings are very heartily appreciated.—Anthony Budnik, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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