![]() This is such a completely different experience from the one where I grew up in – with a family where more than 1/2 of us wear or wore eyeglasses or contact lenses. So many wonderful healings this precious child had, and they were shunned because he wore eyeglasses. They were shunned from the church because their son wore eyeglasses. His family moved at some point, and wanted to attend the local Christian Science Church. He had so many healings about it, and the last healing he needed was to have his eyesight healed. I heard a story by an Ex Christian Scientist, that a little boy had been run over by a truck of all things. (But, wait, wouldn’t a wet washcloth to help with breathing, or honey to help a sore throat also be temporary? It’s so confusing.) Whereas something like surgery is not temporary, therefore it shouldn’t be done, because that’s a material remedy. My family saw eye glasses and contact lenses as “temporary means,” like someone might use crutches for a while, until they “demonstrate over” a problem like “the belief of a sprained ankle.” It’s temporary. Mary Baker Eddy wrote in “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” that “Eyes spiritual discernment.” Meaning, if you understand things spiritually, you won’t need eye glasses or contact lenses. My dad, his dad and I all wear or wore glasses or contact lenses. I am not sharing more of that story, because my family is still around, and they may read this blog some day and not be too happy if I share anything personal like that. She probably had a stroke or heart attack, though an autopsy was never performed. Whereas, my practitioner grandmother died much younger. I am so glad he did, too, because he lived to be 100 years old, and my kids got to know him. My grandpa later had surgeries for things as he got older. One of my uncles asked my grandpa a few times, “hey, dad, do you remember taking me to the doctor when I was little, for that ingrown toenail?” My grandpa remembered. My dad’s parents / my grandparents, on the other hand, took their kids to the doctor when things were rough. And yet, it was a material remedy, so it was snatched from her, and she was treated as if she was a criminal for even trying to have a washcloth to help her breathe when she had the freaking measles during an epidemic at her school! She figured out that a wet washcloth, draped over her mouth, helped her breathe. “Elizabeth’s Story” shares when she had the measles at Principia Upper School in St. Other blog posts here have shared this strict attitude, too. When he got married, that was forbidden, because it was a “material remedy.” When it was just my dad and me, he let me have honey when my throat hurt, just to soothe it. My dad’s family, on the other hand, were much less strict in the way they worshipped. ![]() She was the daughter of a Christian Science Practitioner, who was also the daughter of a Christian Science Practitioner. Some parents were super strict, like my step-mom. And it all is due to the way our parents worshipped Christian Science (or not). I have noticed that with Ex Christian Scientists, we all have similarities and differences.
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