Testimony of Healing February 2, 2009 Issue

HEALED OF DEEP GRIEF

Reprinted from L'Araldo della Scienza Cristiana (Italian Herald)

KATIA VIGNOLI

When my mother passed away, I felt lost. She was the one who'd introduced me to Christian Science, and over time, by studying together the Bible and Science and Health, we'd developed a special bond. We were united not just by mutual love and a similar vision but also by our earnest desire for spiritual growth.

I was not shocked by her death—that happened quickly, peacefully, and painlessly. But I felt unable to learn to live without her. I was comforted by the thought that in Love, in God, there is no separation, and that as children of the same one Mind, my mom and I were expressing divine omnipresence and were therefore living an uninterrupted relationship. However, in spite of all my efforts not to give in to a sense of loss and emptiness, I felt uprooted, as if I were all of a sudden in an unknown country.

Over time this feeling of being "a stranger" prevented me from benefiting from the help that friends and family were trying to offer me with their loving care. I was unable to continue relating harmoniously to my home, my workplace, and the people around me in general, and that made me anxious and filled with worries. At night I was having a hard time going to sleep, and when I'd wake up exhausted in the morning, I was assailed by dark thoughts of inadequacy.

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