Article March 31, 2014 Issue

Listening to thoughts from God

Ellery

One day I woke up with a sore neck, and couldn’t straighten it without having pain. I told my mum, so she said that I could stay home with her to rest. But she also told me that I was wrapped in God’s love and that nothing could really hurt me. Later that day my neck was feeling a little better, but I was sad that I had missed school and training with my aerobics team.

My mum asked if I wanted some prayerful help from my Sunday School teacher. I said, “Yes, please!” And when my mum called her, my teacher asked me what I first needed to do to stop this feeling of sadness. “I have to listen to good thoughts that come from God,” I said. After that she shared with me a story about a famous statue.

A long time ago a group of monks had a gold statue of Buddha, but their country was invaded. To protect it, they covered the statue thick with clay so that it looked like worthless stone. It stayed this way for hundreds of years, and everyone forgot what was underneath. It wasn’t until the clay began to chip off that people finally discovered the statue and saw what it was really made of.