Picking up the pieces after a divorce

The court had indicated that my stay-at-home-mom days were over.

By Nanci Newman

It seemed like the end. I was left with three young children, no income, and what looked like no earning skills.

Terrified, I had no clue what to do. I'd been an at-home mom for years, and before that, my husband and I had been building his career together. The court had indicated that my stay-at-home-mom days were over. Friends offered ideas for work outside the home. As helpful as that was, I turned to God for His ideas.

As a child, my concept of God had been "the big guy in the sky." It's hard to shake that concept, even when logic says that's impossible. We want to hold on to something to which we can relate—a human sense of God. For years I had been gaining a view of God as divine Mind, as Spirit, as Love. So I asked myself, "What is the divine Mind telling me to do? How is the universal Spirit speaking to me? What does Love want for me?" These questions were actually prayers that I made during the course of each day.

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