Daniel had a kitten. He named her D'angelo. He liked that name. It was the name of a big circus lion, but D'angelo was not like a lion at all. She was tiny. She had white fur and two black spots—one on the tip of her nose and one on the tip of her tail.

Daniel loved D'angelo very much. But when D'angelo was a grown-up cat, she began to do something very strange. She scratched the fur around her neck and pulled it out. Daniel tried to make her stop, but when he wasn't looking, she scratched and pulled again. Daniel talked to his mom about this. He wanted to help D'angelo.

His mom reminded him of what he was learning about God in Sunday School. He learned names for God that helped him understand what God is like. One name for God is Mind. His mom found the book and the page where we can read this. The name of the book is Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. On page 469 it says, "Mind is God." Daniel could read it himself.

Daniel knew how to pray. He knew he should begin with God. He and his mom talked about this. Where is Mind, God? What does Mind do? What does Mind know?

Daniel knew the answers. God is everywhere, so Mind is everywhere. What Mind does is know. And because God is the only Mind, He knows everything there is to know. Mind has ideas. They're the ideas that God makes.

Daniel knew that God is good, so God's ideas must be good. His mom read from the Bible, "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good" (Gen. 1:31). Daniel prayed to know D'angelo this way, as all good. His mom prayed, too.

While they were thinking about this, they took care of D'angelo very lovingly. To keep her neck clean, they made a special collar for her. They asked Daniel's dad for one of his socks. They cut off the top and pulled it over D'angelo's head. It fitted around her neck just right. It was a white sock, so D'angelo was still white all over, except for the black spots on the tip of her nose and the tip of her tail.

One day D'angelo was quietly sunning herself on the deck, washing her face with her paw. Daniel's mom walked by her and suddenly she had a powerful thought: "God's idea, cat, is perfect!" She knew this thought came from Mind, God. How did she know that? (After all, D'angelo still didn't look perfect.)

Daniel's mom had been thinking about what God knew about D'angelo. And when she heard this message, she knew that it wasn't a "made-up" thought. It was from God. It was what God knew—and that was that! She told Daniel. They were sure this was God helping them. God speaks to us and we hear Him in our thoughts when we listen.

The next thing that happened made Daniel very happy. D'angelo stopped scratching and pulling her fur. Daniel and his mom and dad were glad to throw away the sock collar. D'angelo didn't need it anymore.

Daniel's mom told him about the woman who wrote the important book that says "Mind is God." She had a three-word name: Mary Baker Eddy. When Mrs. Eddy was a little girl, she loved animals, too. She lived on a farm, where there were lots of animals to care for. She helped them when they were sick. She would sing hymns to them and nurse them until they were healthy and strong.

This is what Mrs. Eddy told a friend a little later: "I would take the little chicks, that seemed sickly ... into the bosom of my dress and hold them until I heard a fluttering sound and found the chicken active and strong and eager to run away, when I would put it down and away it would run." ^{Irving C. Tomlinson notes, Church History Department of The Mother Church. These were used as the basis for his Twelve Years with Mary Baker Eddy.}

Daniel was so happy that his cat was OK. But most of all, he liked knowing that God tells us what is true. No matter what, he could listen and learn straight from God, just the way his mom did. You can listen and learn from God, too. And you can pray for a friend or pet, just the way Daniel and his mom did.