Summary of Lucia Greenhouse's fathermothergod

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#1 In Christian Science, we know that there is no illness. No disease. No contagion. We are not sick. We are God’s perfect children. We are all going to work very hard to keep our thoughts elevated.

#2 I had learned in Sunday school that Christian Science was a real science that worked. It was a comfort to know that everything the church taught was real, and that error, disease, and death were not real.

#3 I love going to Grandma’s house. It is the best place in the world for me. I love the smell of coffee, and Grandma keeps a candy dish of lemon drops next to her ashtray on the small round kitchen table.

#4 My brother and I had chicken pox, and we were sick for a week. We came to Grandma’s house, where we were fed applesauce and cinnamon toast. We sang Mother’s Evening Prayer together.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 23, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822549210

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

In Christian Science, we know that there is no illness. No disease. No contagion. We are not sick. We are God’s perfect children. We are all going to work very hard to keep our thoughts elevated.

#2

I had learned in Sunday school that Christian Science was a real science that worked. It was a comfort to know that everything the church taught was real, and that error, disease, and death were not real.

#3

I love going to Grandma’s house. It is the best place in the world for me. I love the smell of coffee, and Grandma keeps a candy dish of lemon drops next to her ashtray on the small round kitchen table.

#4

My brother and I had chicken pox, and we were sick for a week. We came to Grandma’s house, where we were fed applesauce and cinnamon toast. We sang Mother’s Evening Prayer together.

#5

I had to recite the Scientific Statement of Being at the end of Sunday school every week. I didn’t understand what the words meant, but I said them anyway.

#6

I was riding in the backseat of my dad’s old red Mercedes, smushed between Olivia and Sherman. In the trunk of the car were three pies: apple, pumpkin, and pecan. We were rushing to church and then to Ammie and Grandpa’s for the Thanksgiving feast.

#7

I love the new wooden pews of our church, even if they are hard and uncomfortable. Churches are supposed to have pews. Before the renovation, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Excelsior, Minnesota, had rows of plastic molded chairs with shiny metal legs like you see in a classroom or at Baskin-Robbins.

#8

I have always been afraid to speak in church, but on Thanksgiving Day, I decide to stand and give a brief testimony. I know the order of service well, and I am nervous about what I will say when I stand up.

#9

The Thanksgiving service is different from the other services in that there are more speakers, and therefore more silent gaps between them. The First Reader and the rest of the congregation wait for people to stand up and give their testimonies.