Article September 17, 1949 Issue

"BIND UP THE BROKEN-HEARTED"

JANE M. CRISP

On page 366 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes. "If we would open their prison doors for the sick, we must first learn to bind up the broken-hearted."

It would be well for all of us to consider this message carefully, for the brokenhearted are not always easily recognized, since few people wear their hearts on their sleeves. But when a healing seems to be slow or long delayed, may it not be because the broken heart has not been bound up?

A famous naturalist once said that most men "lead lives of quiet desperation." Are we in this category, trying to be Christian Scientists and expecting healing for ourselves and others while hiding a broken heart? We may not call it that. Broken heart may sound too dramatic and smack too much of self-pity. But without naming it, we may be living in that state of quiet desperation as a result of grief, separation, loss of love, loneliness, and frustration. Perhaps these states of mind are not recognized as obstructions to our healing, but they are.

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