Testimony of Healing September 18, 1989 Issue

In recent years the media have provided the public with an abundance...

In recent years the media have provided the public with an abundance of well-researched and well-documented programs and articles about what happens to the family members of alcoholics.

As one whose father was an alcoholic, I was very much aware of these programs and articles. It became clear to me that this was not a pattern that I wanted to accept for my own life. While my father was never physically abusive, I had lived out almost everything the modern professionals have said a child of an alcoholic would, from low self-esteem, to suicide contemplation, to divorce. Most typically, I had hidden my father's problem, lied about it, been embarrassed by it, felt guilty and resentful about what the problem had done to my family and outlook.

As a Christian Scientist, I endeavored to understand what needed to be corrected by specifically praying and researching the Bible and Mary Baker Eddy's writings for a fresher picture of God and man's relationship to Him. Thus I began to understand better that man is the spiritual image and likeness of Soul, God. There is no fragmentation in this concept of man. I saw myself and my father as expressing harmonious, God-derived qualities.

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