Testimony of Healing September 15, 2003 Issue

Saved from suicide

Elizabeth Brittain

My marriage of 17 years had been both wonderful and, at times, pretty rocky. But then my husband began to be violent toward me, and I knew that my teenage son and I had to leave.

To help find some peace, I read from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, which my mother had given me a few years earlier. For a couple of weeks, my fear did lessen, and I felt somewhat comforted by what I was reading, although I didn't understand much of it. But my son and I went ahead and moved out, into a sad little flat where we lived alone. He was happier—relieved to be away from the coldness and tension of our family home. But I found it very hard to avoid feeling sorry for myself. And I was puzzled. Why had things turned out in this terrible way? I'd been a faithful and hard-working wife and mother. And I still loved my husband.

As the months wore on, I tried to make a new life for myself. I enrolled in a computer course to gain some skills and experience for a new career. Yet, still, I found the isolation unbearable. I realized how one could be surrounded by others, talk and function every day in society, and still not actually communicate with a single person.

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