My first career was working in a medical science-based health-care field. I loved this work and felt led to go into it because of my desire to help people. 

In addition, as a teenager, I had committed myself to being a practicing Christian. As I moved into adulthood, I found myself exploring various Christian denominations to understand how Jesus’ healing works could be practiced today. In my late twenties, I was introduced to Christian Science and found that it had the answers I had been seeking.

I began my study with the absolute basics, finding the testimonies in the periodicals to be the most I could understand at the time of this Science of Christ and its revelation of the omnipotence—the healing power—of God, divine Love. As with all things in life, we need to learn the basics before we can advance to a higher understanding and demonstration. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science, in speaking of Christ Jesus as our Exemplar, writes, “He does not require the last step to be taken first” (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 217).