Testimony of Healing June 1, 2020 Issue

Relationship with stepmom restored

Name Withheld

My dad married my stepmother when I was very young. After they adopted children, I felt that my dad and stepmom favored them over me. Though I visited Dad’s home weekly, I always felt like a guest rather than a family member.

My stepmom and I had some good times early on, but things between us became difficult starting in my teens. Our relationship grew worse when Dad passed on. It was a very stressful time, and I became severely depressed. A friend who was a Christian Scientist offered to pray daily for me, and to my deep gratitude, the depression was overcome. But the difficulties with my stepmother continued.

Finally, through my own prayers and study of Christian Science, I had an awakening and realized that I needed to forgive my stepmom for all the ways I felt she had hurt me over the years. I read some statements Mary Baker Eddy makes about forgiveness, such as this one in Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896: “Hate no one; for hatred is a plague-spot that spreads its virus and kills at last.… If you have been badly wronged, forgive and forget:…” (p. 12).

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