Spiritual light overcomes dark thoughts

About 40 years ago, when I was starting Christian Science nurses’ training after I graduated from college, a bleak sense of impenetrable darkness—feelings of hopelessness and worthlessness—settled on me one night, to the point that suicide seemed not just a reasonable option but the next best step.

A Sunday School teacher had alerted me some years before to emphatically resist even passing thoughts of suicide. The dark feelings were now more than just passing thoughts, and I knew I needed help.

It was around midnight, I think, because I resisted calling a dear Christian Science practitioner who lived nearby, who was also my Christian Science teacher. He would have gladly taken that call for help, but I didn’t want to wake him up.

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