Protected from assault

Gemariah Love

There has been a great deal of talk in the news recently about violations against women, and I’d like to share an experience I had where I was protected from abuse.

I was living in an apartment after college. I hadn’t lived there long when I was wakened in the middle of the night feeling my shoulders being held down. My head was turned toward the wall, so I couldn’t see anything. I could move only my fingers, and just enough to know I was touching denim.

I became afraid, but almost instantly the word love came to my thought. God is Love, and I felt immediately enveloped in this divine Love. Just like that, the fear was completely gone.

In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy writes, “Clad in the panoply of Love, human hatred cannot reach you” (p. 571). Recently, I looked up the meaning of those words and found that clad means dressed, clothed, covered, and panoply means a suit of armor, or protective covering. That night it felt as if I had been instantly wrapped in a blanket of armor. I knew only good could be present.

The pressure on my shoulders was removed, and in a moment I heard the apartment door shut. I waited a bit before getting up, then checked around my apartment. Nothing was taken, broken, or even moved. As long as I lived in that complex there were no other attempts made to break into my home, nor did I hear of any other apartments being invaded.

One might call this a very simple healing. But it was a wonderful proof of God’s protection for His child. As I think back on the incident, I wonder if the intruder, too, might have felt a sense of being wrapped in Love, so much so that the mortal sense of hatred no longer touched him—just as I felt wrapped in Love and untouched by fear.

I grow more grateful for this healing as the years go by. God had protected me. What more could I ask?

Gemariah Love
El Paso, Texas, US

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