Healed of Sorrow Over Daughter’s Rejection

I wanted to express gratitude for practitioner support at the Plainfield Christian Science Church, Independent. Mother’s Day was difficult for me this year, accompanied by a sense of loss in my daughter’s rejection of me. My spiritual practice of loving her (after the rejection) turned into mourning on that day called Mother’s Day. I knew better not to let thoughts of sadness rule, but I still struggled. The next day, when speaking with my Plainfield practitioner, she reminded me that the circumstances I had faced showed I had more work to do. I needed to handle the thought of possession, that my daughter was mine, that I was her mother, when in reality, God was the real Mother here, and my daughter was off learning the life lessons she needed to learn. With this realignment of thought, I was able to step back, release my daughter into God’s hands, regain my peace in thought, and had a little chuckle as I remembered that a few weeks ago, I was giving prayer support to a friend, who happened to be having problems with his son, when a thought came to me from God about my friend’s situation – that he was God’s before he was yours.

I am so grateful for the practitioner’s support at this church, which continually embodies Mrs. Eddy’s definition of “Church. … rousing the dormant understanding from material beliefs to the apprehension of spiritual ideas and the demonstration of divine Science, thereby casting out devils, or error, and healing the sick.”(Excerpt from Science and Health, page 583) I am also grateful to be part of this Plainfield Church family.