It's my birthday week! I thought it would be fun to share my own story.  Even though I was raised in the Bible Belt, I did not grow up in a Christian family. Instead, my family believed in Christian Science. We didn't go to the doctor, and we believed we were spiritual and perfect, and that the material world did not actually exist. Go figure. This is how God broke through and placed me into reality.  

Ellen mentions the book by C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity.