Testimony of Healing February 8, 1999 Issue

Family life restored

Tracy McLaurin Bronner

The demise of my marriage, birth of my second child without husband, loss of job, and subsequent loss of home and car, had left me feeling helpless and desperate. When I read these words in Science and Health, "Trials are proofs of God's care" (p. 66), I felt that if God were truly my Father, He wouldn't allow me to go through trials at all.

You can imagine my surprise at the response, as if a clear voice rang out in my head, "He doesn't!" "Then why am I suffering so?" I questioned back. "You're not!" was the reply. It was as if there were two distinct viewpoints arguing in my head. I knew that only one could be correct. I read elsewhere in Science and Health, "It is our ignorance of God, the divine Principle, which produces apparent discord, and the right understanding of Him restores harmony" (p. 390). I needed something a lot more tangible than right understanding, I thought. I needed a miracle.

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