Testimony of Healing April 22, 2013 Issue

A relationship restored

Diana Impey

Throughout Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and her other writings, Mary Baker Eddy uses terms like Father-Mother, God and God ... the parent Mind (see for example, Science and Health, pp. 335 and 336) to illustrate the inclusiveness of God’s nature and God as our Parent—the one who cares for, guides, and protects us, and brings us reassurance and confidence. These terms are reassuring to me, and through my increasing understanding of what they imply of God’s allness, gave me the confidence to pursue the restoration of my relationship with my father.

My parents divorced when I was a young child, and my subsequent contact with my father was infrequent, which caused me some heartache. Later on he had two other marriages and two more children. He was particularly successful in his profession and was widely and frequently praised. Although rightly deserved, this praise was not only overwhelming for me, but also brought out feelings of personal inadequacy.

I have experienced so much evidence of God’s protection in different circumstances, protection that comes in the form of angels—thoughts from God that guide and guard us, and lovingly hold us when we falter. I saw these angel messages guiding me when a loving family member encouraged me to contact my father, and when I became acquainted with a person who had recently seen and spoken with my father. I believed God’s hand was in mine, and, safe in the knowledge that “Mind, the one Father-Mother God” (Rudimental Divine Science, p. 4) was in control, I knew I would be led to contact my father at the appropriate time.

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