Article May 18, 2020 Issue

Comfort and harmony during self-quarantine

Susan Booth Mack Snipes

Originally published in The Christian Science Monitor’s Christian Science Perspective column March 31, 2020.

Many years ago when I was a single mom with two young daughters, my job as a secretary was our only source of income. At that time the community we lived in faced a contagious epidemic, and we were encouraged to consider quarantining our children at home for five weeks, even if they showed no symptoms of the disease.

I voluntarily took this step out of support for my family and our community, but I was feeling a deeper need for security than quarantining could provide. How would I pay our bills? How would I survive five weeks alone in our house with two active children? What would happen if they did become ill?

I turned to God in prayer for answers. Fresh inspiration came with the powerful assurance of this Bible verse: “Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them” (Psalms 119:165).

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