Mother-daughter relationship healed

Originally appeared on spirituality.com

My gratitude for the transforming, healing power of Christian Science runs deep.

Before learning about it my journey had been anything but easy—largely the result of uninformed, often self-centered choices based on intense, personal longings to find a sense of peace, love, and meaning in life. One consequence of those choices was a gradual, uneasy estrangement between my mother and myself over the years.

It wasn’t something we acknowledged or talked openly about because neither of us knew how to speak honestly about our grievances. But inwardly I continued to nurse a long list of unhappy, often bitter complaints that I considered wholly justified. Still, I had reached this conclusion without the reforming, effectual influence and power of God—Truth, Life, and Love—to make all things new and right.

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