Testimony of Healing May 3, 1982 Issue

When I was a senior in college, I became engaged to a girl I had...

J. RICHARDSON SMITH

When I was a senior in college, I became engaged to a girl I had been dating for two years. One weekend when I was home from school and on a date with my girlfriend, she gave back her engagement ring and said she could not marry me. I was completely surprised and extremely hurt. I thought we got along well together and that there were no problems between us. I asked her for an explanation, but she said she just felt we should not continue our relationship. The following day I tried to talk to her, but she would not see me. For the next several weeks I spent hours praying so that we would get back together and also tried many times to see her. But there was no change and I felt heartbroken.

One day I realized that I was praying selfishly—praying for something to happen in the way I wanted it to happen. I realized that I should let "Thy will be done," as it says in the Lord's Prayer (Matt. 6:10). As a Christian Scientist, I knew that God was truly in control and that His divine plan was much better than my human outlining. I immediately felt better and continued to correct thought through prayer.

It was not until sometime afterward that I realized the good that was unfolding. In a few months I started dating another girl. Within a year we got married; and now, seven years later, we have two lovely children and are living "happily ever after." I also learned that, at the time of our breakup, my previous girlfriend had started seeing another man. She was kind enough to save me the hurt of finding out the hard way. The divine way was surely a lot better than the plan I wanted to use.

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