Two years ago I had a healing of grief that may help someone who is overcome by this problem. I had an unusually strong attachment and feeling of responsibility for my mother. Her death caused me such a heavy sense of grief that I had no desire to rise out of it. It was willpower, which is not Christian Science, that at times held back the tears, but of course it didn't solve my problem.
Just before the funeral service began, a close relative sitting next to me began to weep. Although I hadn't been able to pray effectively for myself, the grief of my relative awakened me to the need to pray for the service. That was the first time I was able to turn my thoughts to God in prayer after my mother's passing, and most important, it broke the mesmerism that had enveloped my thinking. I gratefully acknowledged that the divinely inspired readings would bless and heal all. The same Mind revealing itself in the truth was also manifesting itself in perfect ideas, thereby healing sorrow and dismay and blessing all.
This prayer to bless all opened my thought to such receptivity that I was completely healed during the reading of these opening citations from the Bible: "Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:... we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord" (II Cor. 5:6, 8).
