IT WAS A PARTICULARLY TOUGH TIME IN MY LIFE, AND SOME DAYS, I felt like I was clinging to this idea like a life raft: I cannot be separated from God,
The effect of this prayer was mixed. Some days it brought comfort. Others, I would hold on until my mental knuckles were white, but fall asleep no less convinced that the bottom would drop out, that I would be forever left without the peace and security I so desperately needed.
Then one Sunday morning in church, I heard a phrase that I'd been reading all week without really understanding: "This is the doctrine of Christian Science: that divine Love cannot be deprived of its manifestation, or object. . . . "Science and Health, p. 304.
