ALTHOUGH THE TIME HAD PASSED for my normal menstrual cycle to end, the bleeding continued—and at a much heavier rate than usual. After this had gone on for about two weeks, I began to feel weak and to experience heaviness in my limbs.
At first it was tempting to be concerned about these symptoms and to count the number of days they continued. I was also concerned that I wouldn't be able to care for my children if the situation didn't improve. But I knew I could rely on prayer for healing, as I have in the past. So I turned wholeheartedly to God for help. And I asked a Christian Science practitioner to pray with me.
One of the lovely insights that came to me while praying was a line from a hymn. It reads: "Living stones we, each in his place ..." (Nikolaj F. S. Grundtvig, Christian Science Hymnal, No. 176). The image of stones, each in its proper place, brought to mind another image from nature—the orderly placement of sunbeams. It occurred to me that all sunbeams get what they need directly from the sun. They don't branch off other sunbeams, and so they can't drain each other, compete with each other, or contaminate each other. Each sunbeam is also exactly where it's supposed to be—always in its right place. I knew the same was true of the direct and orderly relationship that each one of God's children has with his or her divine source.
