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A prayer at the mall
One day while walking through a shopping mall, I heard shouts and cries from a young mother that her little girl was missing. A crowd had gathered, including police officers and security guards. People all around were on their cellphones making calls, and the young mother was frantically giving out the description of her child and what she was wearing. I gathered that someone had reported seeing a man take the little girl away.
As I walked across the plaza toward my destination on the other side, I prayed with all my heart to see everyone as God’s expression. My prayer went something like this: “God is All. God fills all space. He knows all and sees all. God, divine Mind, knows exactly where that child is. She is safe in God’s loving arms, and no harm can come to her.”
Then I thought of the alleged perpetrator, and remembered that that person was also loved by God, complete and fully satisfied with all that God has supplied. He or she need not take from another to satisfy his or her needs. In the textbook on Christian Science, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy writes: “The children of God have but one Mind. How can good lapse into evil, when God, the Mind of man, never sins?” (p. 470). I also sang Hymn No. 267 to myself, which begins:
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