God is ever present

Marjorie C. Lawrence

God is ever present. An opportunity to prove this statement arose one day when a neighbor's child sprayed my two children with plant fungicide and told them they were going to die.

Upon first hearing their cries I started for the door on the run. Halfway there I stopped and said to myself, "You're not going to be able to help them with wrong thoughts." The crying became louder as they came closer, and I said aloud, "Dear Lord, give me the strength to meet this situation whatever it is." My thought instantly became calm. Instead of rushing to meet them I waited for them at the door.

By this time I could see my daughter had her eyes tightly closed, and my son, aged two and a half, was guiding her footsteps. Only the top of his head was coated with the powder, and I asked him why he was crying. He replied, "He said I'm going to die like the bugs." I told him, "You're not a bug, are you? What are you really?" His fear departed, the crying of both stopped, and he positively stated, "I'm God's perfect child."

I handed my daughter a wet facecloth and told her to wash her face while I washed off her brother. She stated she could not see, and I firmly told her she could, that her sight was spiritual. I said, "God gives it to you, and you can't ever lose anything God gives you." I told her God does not cause accidents, and she could not have results from something God did not cause. I asked her to recite "the scientific statement of being." This statement of truth is found in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 468) and is one of the things often committed to memory by children who attend the Christian Science Sunday School.

My son was soon cleaned up and expressed a desire to go back to let the other boy know that what he had said was a lie. He agreed not to be angry with him if I let him go back.

As soon as her brother was gone my daughter wailed, "I still can't see," and she asked me why. I held her close and told her that she had just been saying words without really thinking of their meaning. I said we would repeat "the scientific statement of being" together and that this time she was to know that the words were the truth about her. We very slowly started repeating together, "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter." And when we finished the last line, "Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual," she opened wide the most beautiful pair of laughing blue eyes you ever did see. The whites of her eyes were a clear bright white, whereas before they had been very red; and she could see.

I am grateful for having been blessed with a mother who has devoted most of her life to serving God as a Christian Science practitioner, and who instilled in me at an early age the certainty that God is ever present. My gratitude is unending for Christian Science and the many blessings I have received from it all my life.

(Mrs.) Marjorie C. Lawrence
Merritt Island, Florida

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