Mary Baker Eddy calls marriage, “a centre for the affections” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 60). For over a year I felt distressed by the fact that my beloved husband now needs to use a walker. He was my high-school sweetheart, and I hadn’t seen him for 56 years when he contacted me at a time when he was a widower, and I had recently divorced.
But now, only nine years into our marriage, thoughts like “We can no longer walk on the beach at sunset” blinded me to his many wonderful qualities. I resented the fact that my daily activities had changed from being an owner and full-time manager of a successful art gallery business, and consultant to several others, to essentially that of caretaker.
Self-righteously I asked myself why he didn’t thirst for answers to his need for healing. I knew from my own experience and study of Christian Science that he, too, could demonstrate health and wholeness. I saw him as completely mesmerized by the allegorical history of the Adam man made of dust in Genesis 2—instead of understanding the real man made in the likeness of God as explained in Genesis 1.
