Article January 9, 1995 Issue

Let me forget me

Bernice Holly Higgins

"Would existence without personal friends be to you a blank?" (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health, p. 266). I read this one morning and slammed the book shut. "A blank." How exactly that described my situation! I felt that I could jump into the ocean and no one would care.

I was working in a department store and living alone in a hotel room in a city away from my family. Often I was overcome with self-pity and unhappiness, longing to be married and to be loved.

After I closed the book, I sat quietly and began to pray. As I listened, it came to me to turn back to the citation and read the following lines. Here's what they say: "Then the time will come when you will be solitary, left without sympathy; but this seeming vacuum is already filled with divine Love. When this hour of development comes, even if you cling to a sense of personal joys, spiritual Love will force you to accept what best promotes your growth."

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