Article June 1, 2015 Issue

From grief to peace after tragedy

Carmen Diaz-Bolton

The recent airline disaster in the French Alps has caused many in the world to seek prayerful comfort and healing solutions in the spirit of Christly compassion, support, and brotherhood. Years ago, after a similar incident affected me personally, I needed to prayerfully work through and rise above the full gamut of emotions involved with such a tragedy. Christian Science played the leading role in bringing me real, lasting peace and a renewed sense of God as Life and Love.

One evening just before the Christmas holidays, a friend and I were watching the news on TV as breaking international coverage suddenly interrupted with live footage of fragments of a downed aircraft. We were both quietly praying to know that those aboard and their families were in spiritual reality forever enveloped in divine Love, when the phone rang. I was advised that a close family member had been on that flight and that there were no survivors. Reeling from shock and the disturbing images I had seen on the news, I struggled to rise above the sea of emotions.

Under these trying circumstances, I needed bedrock to stand on. Christian Science had just come into my life earlier that year, healing me of a physical condition that doctors had said would require surgery. I had glimpsed the fact of my divine Parent’s ever-present, infinite love, which is always cherishing, maintaining, protecting, and guiding me, His perfectly created idea. I knew this to be true for all of God’s children. Since that healing, Christian Science had become my guiding light, satisfying an inner desire to grow spiritually closer to my creator, offering a very fulfilling way to live and think.

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