Nothing that is nothing

Steve Summerlin

I was perched on a twenty-foot cliff overlooking the river below. I leapt into the air to the excited yells of my friends and dropped down, down, down, until my feet struck the hard surface of the river. Immediately the cheers faded as I submerged into the silence of the deep, cool water. Soon, though, I was on top again, laughing and swimming to shore. That was the most fun I'd had at summer camp yet!

I began to dry myself off and noticed that things didn't sound quite right. They were muffled and distant, as if I had a pillow over my head. I realized that I had water in one of my ears and began shaking my head to get rid of it. No matter how hard I tried, though, the water remained. I decided to leave it alone and just try to have fun. The next morning, however, I woke with pain in that ear.

I am a Christian Scientist, and in the Christian Science Sunday School I had learned in the Bible about Christ Jesus and about how he healed—and taught us to heal—through prayer. So I started to pray. I also skipped breakfast and went to visit a Christian Science practitioner who was available for the campers and was staying on the campground. A practitioner is a person whose full-time occupation is healing people through understanding God's, divine Love's, power. I explained what had happened as the practitioner lovingly listened. She told me that she would pray for me and that God had a message, or idea, just for me. She asked me to listen for it.

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