I learned of Christian Science in the middle of 1973, a few days before my marriage. I had always searched for intelligent answers to all the questions I frequently asked myself about God, man, and the universe. My search had led to a good deal of reading, but the results were not very positive. This Science, which was the best of wedding presents, was the light that opened to me the door of spiritual understanding I had hoped to enter.

During the intervening years, the study of the Bible from this new, spiritual approach, and of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, has been correcting, cleansing, and transforming my thought with the purifying waters of truth. Along a path that has not always been easily or rapidly traversed, many concepts I had accepted as true and definitive about myself had to yield to diviner conceptions that always reassure us and tell us of our real, spiritual perfection.

I have immense gratitude today for the specific healing of sadness and of the fear of death. When Christian Science came into my life, I was suffering from these depressing feelings, manifested in sorrow over an illness my mother had and over discordant personal relations, and intense fear that I would be left without my mother. As I advanced in my understanding of these new teachings and strove to apply them, supported by the prayer of a Christian Science practitioner, I began to feel the freedom that comes with recognition of the spiritual reality of creation.

Acknowledgment of God as the only Father-Mother of all His children was very important, as was an understanding that I was in reality a complete, spiritual creation, possessing all right ideas from God. Realizing this, I knew I would be able to face every situation successfully. At no time was I, or had I been, a mortal who found herself alone, struggling, through precarious personal means, with adversity, and lacking guidance or protection. Gradually, in the degree that I understood and yielded to these truths, happiness, serenity, and a greater desire to live replaced the heavy burden of personal responsibility. When I obtained a more spiritual concept of freedom, the personal relations became more harmonious.

I can say with gratitude that in later years when my mother passed on I was so imbued with the joyful feeling of divine tenderness and love embracing my whole being, that I was free from dwelling on the human circumstances. I was able to feel and comprehend something of the great reality stated by Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health, where she writes of "divine Principle, Love, underlying, overlying, and encompassing all true being." The paragraph opens (p. 496), "We all must learn that Life is God." The concluding sentence of the paragraph is: "Hold perpetually this thought,—that it is the spiritual idea, the Holy Ghost and Christ, which enables you to demonstrate, with scientific certainty, the rule of healing, based upon its divine Principle, Love, underlying, overlying, and encompassing all true being."

I must add that the results of this healing have been so complete and permanent that now when I think of my mother I do so with firm and serene confidence in her joyful life in God; I know that "with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light" (Ps. 36:9).

I am grateful to those who helped me walk in this path; to the person who first told me about this marvelous Truth that is Love; for Christ Jesus, who foretold the coming of the Comforter, divine Science, set forth in Science and Health; and for Mrs. Eddy, who received the teaching and was able to demonstrate it. I am thankful also for all Christian Science literature, especially The Herald of Christian Science, Spanish Edition.

(Mrs.) Graciela Burgos de Tosolini
Santa Fe, Argentina