Editorial April 9, 1984 Issue

When those we love disappoint us

BARBARA-JEAN STINSON

When we love someone deeply, we're usually inclined to see only the good he or she expresses. It's difficult not to be hurt and disappointed when we discover that a person dear to us has serious human failings. We may feel betrayed.

Yet there are enduring spiritual lessons to be learned from these experiences. When we learn them, that feeling of betrayal can be healed and our own lives spiritually strengthened.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, had many sad experiences in her life—her second husband's infidelity, the antagonism of her family, the disloyalty of some of her students. But notice what she was able to write in the textbook of Christian Science, Science and Health: "Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us."^{ Science and Health, p. 66.}