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My introduction to the Comforter
“God, if You’re really there, I’ve heard of this Comforter in the Bible (see John 14:16), and I sure could use some comfort now.” This was my silent prayer, from the depths of my heart. At the time I was a single, working parent, in my bed at night, feeling unloved, unsupported, and miserable. I was having a pity party, you might say.
I wasn’t yet familiar with Christian Science. I had been raised in another Christian denomination and attended that Sunday School every week until my teens. If someone had asked me what I learned in Sunday School, “the Comforter” wouldn’t have even been on my radar. But as I reached out to God that night in prayer, from somewhere in the recesses of my thinking, I remembered the biblical promise of “the Comforter.”
Before my prayerful request was fully formed, the softest, tenderest sense of love enveloped me in an instant. I felt as if I had been tucked into bed by my dear mother. I just snuggled into the covers, smilingly happy.
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Katherine McElroy is a Christian Science nurse who lives in Arvada, Colorado.
