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Date: 2004-09-30 14:41:52

Comment:

I was raised in Christian Science, & we had to say the Scientific Statement of Being each week in Sunday School.  The two lines that stick in my mind are the following:  Spirit is the real and eternal, matter is the unreal and temporal.  What I had trouble understanding was UNREAL.  When I married my husband, I took my instant daughter to the Science of Mind Church (aka Religious Science); & since they needed a Sunday School Teacher, I had to take a year of Religious Science to qualify as a teacher.  The best thing that I learned from my teacher was when he compared the human mind to a slide projector.  Most people keep tearing down the screen & getting the same picture; but in order to get a different picture, the slide has to be changed.  I was only able to keep my instant daughter in the Sunday School for two years; & after losing a five-day-old daughter, a social worker advised me to join a Temple Sisterhood for companionship, which is what brought me into the Jewish community and back to my roots.  After I got breast cancer, I went back to the Religious Science Church; and now I know what Mary Baker Eddy meant by UNREAL.  Religious Science teaches that the real self, which leads you in the right direction (if you let it) is the spiritual self (not the unreal & temporal part of you).  Since my father was killed in WWII as a Gay Jewish American War Hero, the photo of the Star that marked his grave in Okinawa led me (by having faith in the higher power within me) to the Jewish War Vets; and they will help me write my book based on the 91 letters and 34 post cards that my father wrote to my mother while he took care of the wounded in Iceland, the Guadalcanal, & Okinawa (I know that my book will be a best seller because the gay community need a War Hero).
Proud daughter of a tall, dark, & handsome Gay Jewish American War Hero