your decisions February 15, 1999 Issue

How do you make big decisions? Do you discuss all the options with family and friends? Make long lists of pros and cons? Research all the ramifications?

While these may be useful steps, they may not bring the clarity necessary to make a confident decision. What's needed is spiritual light.

We hope you'll find that the prayers, spiritual study, and healing experiences authors share in this new column help bring the right choices and truly satisfying decisions to light in your life.

"Your decisions will master you, whichever direction they take." Mary Baker Eddy

Facing an abusive father

By Clifford Kapps Eriksen

I FELT I had plenty of justifiable reasons for hating my father. He never did any of the things for my brother and me that fathers do. He mistreated my mother and squandered family income on alcohol and gambling. And when my mother passed on, he was only too happy to allow an aunt and uncle to raise his two sons.

If ever there was a time I felt totally alienated from my father, it was then.

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