Awakening to Love & Light During Class Instruction

When I took class instruction, I lodged with other classmates not far from the church. I was relatively new to Christian Science and as I met the others, I began to feel unworthy to take class with them; they were such wonderful women and had practised Christian Science for a long time.

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I had turned away from my childhood faith and had stopped believing in God for many years before coming into Science. Cold symptoms then appeared, and I spent the first three days of class coughing and feeling miserable.

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That third afternoon, as we were all studying together in our shared accommodation, my thoughts turned to the faith I had been brought up in and dark images of divine punishment filled my thinking. One of my new friends asked what I was thinking about and when I told her she lovingly reprimanded the wrong thoughts. I was upset and went to my room to be alone.

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Then I remembered that I had a metaphysical assignment for the next day, a treatment for a baby that wouldn’t go to sleep, and I quickly started to pray. I was led to work with “Mother’s Evening Prayer” line by line, and thoughts just flowed!

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When I finished the treatment, I was at peace. I then became aware of a presence in the room and looked up to see a whiteness I can’t describe. It was filling me with Love, just pouring it into every fibre of my being. I wept for wonder and joy. This experience lasted several moments, and I felt so blessed. I no longer had any cold symptoms, and the negative thoughts had disappeared. With joy I returned to my classmates.

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When I shared this experience with our Teacher, we saw it as the Christ coming to me. Fenella asked me to study page 23 of Retrospection and Introspection. Now, in the light of our Association theme, I also see my experience as being a glimpse of heaven which has sustained me ever since, and I am so grateful.

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