"He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God" (Ps. 40:2, 3).
These words are truly a summation of this testimony. Although I have always been a Christian Scientist, for many years my life seemed to be a series of "horrible pits"—each one becoming progressively more difficult to climb out of. Always there was a deep, dark cloud under which I seemed to live. Finally I became convinced that the only way to stop my suffering and end the difficulties my husband and children were experiencing was to end my life.
One afternoon just before I planned to carry out this intention, my husband, in his loving efforts to help me, said I should learn to accept things I couldn't change. The word accept charged into my consciousness. I went immediately to the Concordance to Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy and looked up that word accept. I found this: "But the human self must be evangelized. This task God demands us to accept lovingly to-day, and to abandon so fast as practical the material, and to work out the spiritual which determines the outward and actual" (p. 254). As I read these words, that dark black cloud and deep pit vanished!
