A number of years ago when my husband passed on suddenly, leaving me with three young sons, the prayerful support of a Christian Science practitioner lifted me above grief and loss. A wonderful feeling of the "husbanding" qualities of divine Love brought into my life friends, relatives, and others who were able to help guide me in making many necessary decisions, and whose love and interest greatly blessed the boys and me.
In raising these boys I had to turn from the picture of a mother shouldering both parental roles to the truth of God as Father-Mother, and to replace a false responsibility and concern with confidence in God's ever-present care for them. Eventually I remarried—a very fine individual, who brought not only happy companionship but a supportive parental influence.
A few years ago the youngest of these boys had an outstanding healing. I received a call one morning from the school nurse, telling me that our son had been injured in gym while doing flips from a mini-trampoline. The nurse said the school was covered by insurance and urged me to have an X-ray taken to determine the extent of the injury, which seemed to have affected his neck. She also told me that our son wanted me to call a Christian Science practitioner for him. I was grateful for his firm stand in the midst of the surrounding medical concern, and I called a practitioner right away while my husband drove to school to bring the boy home.
