Having been brought up in Christian Science and having had ample evidence of its blessings and protection throughout many years, I feel that I must testify in writing to its enrichment of my life.
I shall be forever thankful for the strong, sustaining love of my family and friends that surrounded me during the difficult period after my husband passed on. A very real and deep sense of gratitude for the rich blessings of my life helped me to overcome emotionalism and self-pity, which tried to rob me of my joy. I knew that joy is a quality of God and that a loving Father does not take away the gifts that He bestows upon His children.
I found that as I was willing to release my dear one from personal attachment, all the fine, enduring, spiritual qualities which constitute the real man became clearer and nearer to me, and the sense of separation and loss was eventually overcome. Mrs. Eddy says in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 353), "If one asks me, Is my concept of you right? I reply, The human concept is always imperfect; relinquish your human concept of me, or of any one, and find the divine, and you have gained the right one —and never until then." Through the salutary effects of sorrow I was enabled to perceive more clearly the divine, and therefore the right, concept of my husband.
