When I was a young mother caring full time for my two small children, I went through a period of many weeks where I experienced extreme fear, distress, and loneliness and was unable to sleep through the night.
I prayed with the weekly Bible Lesson from the Christian Science Quarterly and further studied the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy whenever I got the chance. I also read that Mrs. Eddy once said, “There has been a voice saying to me, ‘Mary, take yourself out of the way and let God act through you’ ” (Irving C. Tomlinson, Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy, Amplified Edition, p. 163). I was deeply touched by this and applied it to myself, acknowledging that I have my being in the divine Mind, and only this Mind is able to see, hear, feel, think, speak, or act.
In the midst of my search for healing, I was sidetracked by a plumbing leak in our home, which was difficult to locate. We had two choices—to rip up the bathroom where the plumbers thought the leak might be (but weren’t sure), or we could take the expensive step of running a completely new pipeline over the existing pipes. The first option would be inexpensive if the leak could be found quickly, but it was a gamble because we might need to rip up other areas of the house to locate the leak.
