Stick to what is true

Lesley Clyne

We can prove the truth of the Beatitudes in lots of little ways and receive the blessing Jesus promised. When we do this, God's love makes us stronger all the while, so that in the end nothing can shake our safety and our trust in God.

A little girl was asked by her best friend to be nasty to another girl. The friend thought she had some good reasons for wanting this, but the little girl knew that hurting people can't ever be good. She remembered the commandment "Thou shalt not kill,"^{Ex. 20:13.} which she had learned at home and in Christian Science Sunday School. She knew it meant we should never even hurt or hate anybody. So when her best friend said, "Come and push this other girl over," she told her, "No." Then her best friend got angry and quarreled with her and said she wouldn't be friends anymore. The little girl prayed, "Thank you, God, for loving me and her." Then she got on with something else and felt everything was all right.

That afternoon her best friend wouldn't play with her, but the little girl knew God's love was true, and that anything unkind and unfriendly was not true. All God's children express His love. The next morning her best friend was ready to play just the way she had before. But the little girl wasn't just the way she had been before—she was stronger, because she had held fast to Love, or God, and knew that Love always wins.

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