It is with a great sense of gratitude that I would like to report some healings that occurred during the final months of my second pregnancy, which culminated in the quick and completely harmonious birth of my daughter a little over a year ago, just a week before Thanksgiving.
When I found out that my husband and I were expecting our second baby, I was delighted. And I immediately began praying to see this experience in a wholly spiritual light—and as an opportunity to demonstrate the power of divine Love over fear concerning my past. The birth of my first child had been very difficult and challenging, and while I was very grateful for the outcome of a beautiful and healthy baby boy, the experience had left me with a lingering feeling of failure. I had been praying to correct that view of pregnancy and childbirth and replace it with what is described in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy as the “new idea” being “conceived and born of Truth and Love” and “clad in white garments” (p. 463).
I periodically called a Christian Science practitioner to pray for me during this time. And I contacted a Christian Science nurse to assist with loving practical support during and after the baby’s birth.
