I am come that they might have...

Helen Audrey Walker

"I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly," said Christ Jesus (John 10:10). These words have had meaning for me since I began seriously to rely on Christian Science for my every need. With a desire to express my deep gratitude for this fact I write my testimony.

After two and a half years of married life my husband passed on, and six months later my son was born. My grief was so deep that for the next five years my life was one of existence only. Although I became interested in Christian Science three years after my husband's passing, it did not occur to me to apply its teachings to help me overcome this grief. The belief that perhaps time would bring healing may have been the reason for this negligence; but I have since proved that it is not time but divine Truth which is the healer.

When I was in deep despair I asked a Christian Science practitioner for help. She gave me one treatment, and I shall never forget the love that encompassed me when she spoke. Two weeks later a friend who had recently been through an experience of grief similar to mine was speaking to me of it. As I listened to the same arguments of mortal mind that I had been accepting for five years, like a voice shouting in my ear these words came: "Aggressive mental suggestion." The load of grief that I had been carrying dropped from me, and I was free.

Later on, however, I found that when I met others who were grieving, I went down into their valley of grief with them. While staying as a guest at a Christian Science House I found myself reflecting on the experiences that had been mine since I had become a widow. As the word widow entered my thought I heard again in my consciousness the words, "Aggressive mental suggestion," and I found myself saying, "I am not a widow." As I realized the inference of this it was as if my fist had gone through a balloon and it had burst. I saw that I had been unconsciously identifying myself with the thought of widowhood and with all the limitations which widowhood often includes.

With this realization came a wonderful recognition that there is only one consciousness—God. I saw that my husband was not in some place which I could reach only through death, but that the qualities of consciousness which he had expressed and which had really companioned me were present wherever I was.

No more did I go down into the valley of grief, and there has been no further submission to that aggressive mental suggestion. This healing could not have taken place without the revelation of Truth given us through the consecrated efforts of our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy. My heart goes out in deepest gratitude to God for her.—(Mrs.) Helen Audrey Walker, Guildford, Surrey, England.

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