Testimony of Healing June 1, 1992 Issue

Some years ago I heard an expert in ancient languages explain...

Richard A. Pearson

Some years ago I heard an expert in ancient languages explain that the verse in the forty-sixth Psalm which reads, "Be still, and know that I am God," can also be translated "Let go, and know that I am God." This Biblical instruction meant much to me some years ago when I had been struggling for a long time with the heartbreak of a broken marriage.

My wife had left me and married someone else. In great mental distress I had turned to Christian Science, which I had largely ignored for about thirty years, asked a Christian Science practitioner to pray for me and with me, and had begun an intensive study of the Bible and the writings of Mrs. Eddy.

I was quite convinced that if I could work this out "correctly," my wife would somehow return and the unhappiness would cease. Then I heard the translated Bible verse I have just quoted. This came as a great shock to me, but I saw at once that I had to let go of my own idea of how this should work out: I had to let go of the idea that my wife was my happiness—and, in effect, set her free in my thought.

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