It all seemed so real. The cold, dark night air, the curtains blowing eerily. The intruder climbing through the window with knife in hand—and rushing toward me. I fought off the attack, kicking and screaming for all I was worth.
Then, suddenly . . . I felt my husband’s comforting arms holding me tight, as he gently woke me up. “Honey!” he said, “It’s ALL RIGHT!! You’re just having a dream. You’re safe. Everything’s fine!!” And he just held on to me till I fully awoke and saw that—yes, everything was alright. Things were just as peaceful and under God’s control as they were when we’d gone to bed. A gentle summer breeze was wafting through the window, and everything in the bedroom was in order.
The next morning, we barely remembered the whole scenario, except to laugh a little about it at breakfast. But as the day went on, and I spoke with various people who asked me to pray for them as a Christian Science practitioner, I found myself saying the same kinds of things my husband had said to me during the night. Like “Let’s not be fooled. This situation we’re praying about—real and threatening as it seems—is actually a dream. A dream concocted by what the Bible calls the ‘carnal mind.’ A dream of pain or sadness, of life somehow separated from God. But such a separation is impossible. God’s right here with you, and you’re with God forever. At this very moment, your divine Father-Mother is seeing you as His likeness, flawless, spiritual, totally free. And you can see yourself this way too. You can wake up to reality. You can wake up to healing!”
