Article December 28, 2009 Issue

NEVER ALONE

Joan Wattam

A spirituality.com chat last month featured Joan Wattam, a Christian Science practitioner from Rotherham, in the United Kingdom. This text has been edited for readability. To listen to the complete chat, go to www.spirituality.com/chats/neveralone.

Joan, please share some ideas on how to regain a proper sense of life after losing a spouse.

Special care needs to be taken to guard our thought from the beginning. As I was thinking of Psalm 139, there was a key word in that psalm which struck me and that was "awake" (verse 18). And the command to wake up is given in Ephesians 5:14. It says, "Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead [from your dead thoughts], and Christ shall give thee light"—that is, understanding. So it's important to rouse that understanding and have the desire to seek and know the truth when someone who's very close to us, passes on. We do have the most wonderful assurance from Jesus of there being no death in reality, and no parting.

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