Article June 29, 1968 Issue

Judy Finds the "fat path"

[For children]

LOIS JEAN SECRIST

The wilderness path narrowed as Judy ran, her feet cushioned by a heavy mat of pine needles from the towering trees overhead. Here and there she waded in a small mountain brook that crossed the path. Nearby an opossum stirred sleepily in a rotted tree stump, and wild turkey moved through the brush.

Judy knew that deer and other creatures lived in this mountain cove, deep in the wilderness area of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. But she wasn't afraid of them. She knew that God was taking care of them just as He took care of her.

It was Sunday afternoon. Judy was just learning to read, and only that morning she had read the Lesson-Sermon Golden Text from the Christian Science Quarterly with the other children in the Christian Science Sunday School: "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest."^{Josh. 1:9;} She loved the Bible verses she learned, and often used them to help drive away fearful and unhappy thoughts.