A blessed peacemaker!

Patricia I. Wilson

There were only twenty-eight pupils in the entire school that I went to when I was nine years old. I had to walk about a mile each way to get there. And most days, two girls, older and bigger than I, who lived farther up our road, walked with me.

About this same time my mother and father and I had become interested in Christian Science. We studied it together as a family. Sometimes my father would be lying on the couch with a headache, and I would read to him from Science and Health, and it always helped us both, even if my reading wasn't perfect!

We lived too far away for me to get to Sunday School, so I did a lot of learning on my own. When I began to learn the Beatitudes, which Christ Jesus gave us, I thought that "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God" (Matt. 5:9) was a very important one. I really wanted to be called a child of God, so I set out to do some serious peacemaking!

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