Article October 21, 1972 Issue

Lift Up the Lad

LIBBY POMERAN

An experience I had with one of my children made me realize how important it is to stop watching an existing problem or ailment, to turn away from its seeming reality and lift thought wholeheartedly in perfect trust to God, whose saving power is always right at hand to bless.

When the child was about four years old, he suffered severe pain in his ear. I was then a young student of Christian Science and was helping him through prayer, knowing, as well as I could, the truth of his spiritual freedom as God's expression. But there did not seem to be any immediate improvement. Around three in the morning he cried, and I was frightened, as he could not be quieted.

I continued to pray. Suddenly it came to me to turn away from him, to stop watching a suffering child, so I left him in his bedroom and closed the door and went into another room.

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