In the early 1990s my family was able to bear witness to God’s unfailing care in the most trying of circumstances. I lived in Florida with my then husband and our two young children. I had been raised in Christian Science and had seen and experienced many healings in our family. My parents were both dedicated Christian Scientists, and I am so grateful to them for instilling a love of God in me. Later as I raised my own family, I relied solely on God’s loving and protecting care for them, and our children regularly attended Sunday School. Even though my husband was not a Christian Scientist, he supported my reliance on Science, as he had witnessed many healings the children and I experienced.
My husband was a pilot for an airline based in Angola. This required him to be gone for months at a time. We had very little contact with him while he was away, but during one phone call he expressed concern that he was in constant danger. Angola was in the midst of a civil war and attempts had been made to hijack planes at his base. To protect himself while flying, he had purchased a gun. This made me very uneasy and I began to pray for his safety.
Several fellow pilots expressed interest in obtaining a gun like his. He offered to purchase guns for them, as he had a good contact. He did so, but then suddenly and quite unexpectedly his position with the airline in Angola was terminated, and my husband wasn’t able to sell the guns to his friends before returning to the United States. As he was unable to take the guns with him on the plane home, he asked a coworker to send them to him legally, figuring he could sell them to a local gun shop when he got home and recoup his money.
