Discovering our God-given worth

Perhaps you know someone who is feeling isolated, yearning for affection, or needing better physical or mental health. That was me at one point in my life. I felt, Why live? Although I had a lovely family, I saw no purpose for my life and wished to die. What came to my rescue was a simple request from my older daughter to attend Sunday School. 

At the time, I was not interested in any religion, especially one teaching that we were all born sinners, which is how I saw Christianity. But I found out that the Christian Science Sunday School shares a very different idea: It teaches children how to defend themselves from the commonly accepted interpretation of man’s origin as mortal, material, and sinful. As I learned more about Christian Science, I found that its teachings reveal the spiritual basis of our identity, whereby we can all defend ourselves from feeling limited, unworthy, or isolated.

At one point in my life I felt,
Why live?