Article May 22, 2006 Issue

'MY MAKER IS MY HUSBAND'

Several years ago I discovered my husband was having an affair with a mutual friend. Although I wanted to try counseling or prayer—anything to try to repair our relationship—my husband preferred that we go our separate ways.

I felt as though I were in a bad dream. My emotions swung from anger to sadness, but I clung to the fact that I could trust God for renewal and a new direction in my life. My deepest prayer the first week of our separation was from a line in the chapter on marriage in Science and Health: "Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us" (p. 66).

I also called a Christian Science practitioner to support my prayers during this difficult transitional time in our family. I wasn't just concerned about me, but also about the emotions that our children would feel with their parents separated. The practitioner reassured me that I would find "the peace of God, which passeth all understanding" (Phil. 4:7). He also urged me to look for "that which comforts, consoles, and supports" (Science and Health, p. 582).