"Miserable comforters are ye all" (Job 16:2). This statement by Job to his well-meaning friends who sought to help him was read to me at the time of the loss of a loved one. It seemed to express the hopeless nature of my thinking at that time. However, in reading on in the book of Job, I found other statements that awakened me to the realization that I was not the first one to be faced with an experience of this sort.
After this awakening came, I was willing to listen to anything that would free me from my sense of despair. The following verses from Job were then read to me (32:8): "There is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding"; and (34:10), "Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity."
These passages turned my thoughts completely to God for comfort, and comfort came immediately. From that moment on, a desire to know what had wrought this transformation in my thinking was nurtured, and it was fulfilled through consecrated study of what Mary Baker Eddy says concerning God and man in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." With this study the sense of loss, grief, and helplessness was changed to one of blessing and joy.
