For the wonderful opportunity...

Ruth Lovell

For the wonderful opportunity to learn of one's true being in Christian Science, I am daily more grateful. To know one can be reached by the tender power of God, divine Love, even in the dream of life in matter, is an amazing tiling.

I realize more than ever now, as a wife and the mother of four active children, that the lessons lovingly taught to me in the Sunday School of a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, are of great importance and always will be as I continue to seek the right answers to daily problems. A happy childhood, happy school and social experiences, good friends, graduation from school with honors, and other such blessings led me to believe that I was especially favored of God and had only to snap my fingers and my every wish would come true.

However, within six months of a lovely wedding and ideal marriage, the War Department sent a telegram which stated that my husband had been killed in action. In my sorrow and bitterness, I believed that somehow God had failed me, and I could not understand why. For five years I made my way step by step, with the help of the Bible and of the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, of Christian Science practitioners, and of many hours of study in Reading Rooms, gradually finding the real and separating it from the unreal. Then I met and married the one who is now my husband.

When my parents suddenly passed on within five days of each other and just before Easter, I was able to face that Easter Sunday with a confidence that I was in the care of God and that those I clearly loved were also receiving His loving care. In turning completely to God for help, I was able to understand the meaning of the words which came to my thought, "I am your Father and your Mother." While I was visiting the cemetery one day, feeling I was a rather forlorn only child, this startling question entered my thought: "Why do you come here? They are not here. I am the only Life." I felt a joy and a sense of release from responsibility for the welfare of my parents as well as of myself and knew that God ever beholds and blesses His creation.

In 1957, on a beautiful June morning, I suddenly felt very fearful. I stopped what I was doing and began to pray to realize only Love's presence; to become aware that in reality man lives, moves, and has his being in God, Spirit; that therefore man is a spiritual idea, loved and cared for constantly by Mind. These words came to me from Mrs. Eddy's poem, "The Mother's Evening Prayer" (Poems, p. 4):

His habitation high is here, and nigh,
His arm encircles me, and mine,
and all.

I continued my housework, but tried to keep only facts of God's goodness and love in my thinking. This was about ten thirty. At one o'clock a police cruiser stopped at our door, and my husband walked in and said he had been in an accident, and his car was a total loss. Police officers had taken him to the hospital for an examination, and in their opinion the few scratches, which were the only injuries he had sustained, as well as a torn coat sleeve, were evidence of the miracle which had spared his life. I said aloud, "Thank You, God." No one in the three-car accident, which took place about ten thirty, had been hurt.

Many other occasions for gratitude for Christ Jesus and for Christian Science, the Comforter which he promised and which Mrs. Eddy was led to discover, could be told. My thanks go out for the fidelity of our practitioners, for the Christian Science radio and television programs, for all the healings accomplished through the application of our religion, and for membership in The Mother Church. May all mankind grow to understand Mrs. Eddy's words (Science and Health, p. 13), "Love is impartial and universal in its adaptation and bestowals." —(Mrs.) Ruth Lovell, West-wood, Massachusetts.

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