Testimony of Healing October 4, 2010 Issue

HARMONIOUS CHILDBIRTH THROUGH PRAYER

KATY KING MCKINNEY

When I became pregnant with our second child, my husband and I were excited. However, a few weeks into the pregnancy, it appeared I might have a miscarriage. As a student of Christian Science I had been supporting the pregnancy with prayer (as I was accustomed to doing). But because I had miscarried some months earlier, the fear was aggressive. I immediately called a Christian Science practitioner to help pray for me. After we spoke, I opened my notebook (I kept one filled with ideas and inspiration to aid me) and I homed in on the poem, "Mother's Evening Prayer," by Mary Baker Eddy. Its first verse reads:

O gentle presence, peace and joy and
power;
O Life divine, that owns each waiting
hour,
Thou Love that guards the nestling's
faltering flight!
Keep Thou my child on upward wing
tonight. (Poems, p. 4)