Article July 11, 2016 Issue

A night in the woods

Erin Demaree

A night out in the woods near The Lost Wonder Hut, a cabin in the Rocky Mountains at about 11,000 feet, should have sounded like an adventure. But I was apprehensive. First of all, the overnight was solo. Each of the teens in my group was spending the night in a different part of the woods—alone. Second of all, I’d heard stories from others who’d done the solo overnight before … and they were almost all bad. I didn’t want to have the kind of experience they’d had.

Around dinner time, a few hours before we were to leave, I developed a very severe headache. The idea of spending this solo with a headache made me dread the experience even more.

I was feeling sorry for myself when two of my friends joined me and began reading the Christian Science Bible Lesson with me. One of them even shared a healing she’d had of a headache. While I wanted to be healed, and all the thoughts they shared with me were really good ones, I was still struggling. A few minutes later it was dinner time, and one of the chaperones came over and sent the other girls to dinner.

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