I had been “thrown out of the house.” OK, I wasn’t thrown out of an actual house. 

Nearly five years ago, I went through a serious relationship breakup. Shortly after this, I was in a car accident that totaled my car, and a few months after that, my dad passed away. Then the Covid pandemic hit, and I was laid off from my job in a career that I thought I’d be in forever. I was overwhelmed by feelings of loss.

This is why I felt as though I had been “thrown out of the house”—a phrase once used by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science. One of her students had been healed of a life-threatening injury through prayer. As he told Mrs. Eddy about this healing, she responded, “. . . you were thrown violently out of the house and picked yourself up on the outside; go not back into it” (We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, Expanded Edition, Volume I, p. 349).