Testimony of Healing October 3, 1994 Issue

About six years ago I remarried

Name withheld

About six years ago I remarried. This was particularly important to me, because I had been recently divorced and was so pleased to be "starting over" with a very loving, attentive partner. It seemed that this marriage included all of the things that I thought were missing from my first marriage: romance, spontaneity, common interests.

After a short while I discovered that my husband was not in a frame of mind to work for a living; he had many talents but seemed to be mentally paralyzed. He had many dreams of careers which he never followed through on. I found this upsetting, because my husband and I envisioned having children, and I wanted to be the one to stay home with them. I had no other career ambitions, and to me it seemed unnatural for my husband to shy away from working. I was very frightened at first, and tried to reason with him along lines that made sense to me. Then I called a Christian Science practitioner to pray for me.

Through our prayers many incorrect views of life came to light that needed to be changed through spiritual understanding. One of these was the idea that I could be dependent upon a person for security. This led to the erroneous notion that my supply could be limited by the actions of another. The practitioner helped me to see that all of us receive what we need directly from God, in the form of qualities and ideas. He turned my attention to Second Peter 1:2–8. As I studied, I looked up in the dictionary and Bible reference books all the qualities mentioned in this passage—such as faith, virtue, godliness, temperance, brotherly kindness, charity, patience, and diligence—to learn better what they mean and how they can be lived.

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