Angela Flynn
I recently read Blue Windows by Barbara Wilson. Barbara was raised as a
Christian Scientist. Christian Scientists are admonished to look out of only
rose-colored windows because evil and sickness do not exist. Everything is
perfection. Her mother ended up getting breast cancer and completely lost it, as
this did not fit her belief system. The poor woman drank Drano in her effort to
kill herself. She never regained her sanity through her years of treatment for
the damage done by the Drano and the breast cancer and eventually died from it.
Barbara’s grandmother was a Christian Scientist practitioner who spent her days
performing remote healing. To her dying day she never told her community about
what happened to her daughter. Again it did not fit her belief system.
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