Testimony of Healing February 17, 2020 Issue

Joyous reunion

Name Withheld

I offer this account of healing for all who have been praying about a relationship problem for a long time with what appears to be little result.

When my husband and I were married, he was estranged from his mother and had been for a long time. The estrangement was so severe that he no longer called his mother Mom. She didn’t attend our wedding, and I had never met her. In the early years of our marriage, I occasionally suggested to my husband that he might like to send a Mother’s Day or birthday card, but was always met with a firm “No” that told me the door was closed to all contact. I soon realized I needed to leave this to God’s guidance.

A few years before getting married, I had taken Christian Science class instruction, a course of education about healing through Christian Science. At that time, I’d learned that Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered Christian Science, said she prayed in this way each day: “God bless my enemies; make them Thy friends; give them to know the joy and the peace of love” (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 220). I immediately adopted this prayer, made it my own, and endeavored to pray for myself and the world each day in this way.

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