My name is Bridget, and I’m in second grade. The other day I went to the school nurse because of an earache. The nurse called my mommy. I talked to her, and she said, “God is Love, and you can never be hurt or fall out of God’s care.” She told me to sing a song about God’s love that we sing together in the car sometimes.

After my mom talked to me for a couple of minutes, my ear still hurt. My mom asked if I wanted to stay in the nurse’s office for 30 minutes or have my dad pick me up. I decided to stay in the nurse’s office, so my mom and dad could pray. I wanted to stay at school because I had a friend coming over after school to play. After 30 minutes, I felt great. I was healed! I am grateful for Christian Science.

Bridget Ferland
Fishers, Indiana, US

I am so grateful for this experience my husband and I had with our daughter. When I got the call from the school nurse and my youngest daughter said she had an earache, I spoke to her for a few minutes. I asked if she wanted to stay at school and she said, “Yes.” But she didn’t want to go back to her classroom yet because her ear was hurting.  

I gave her the most immediate form of medicine I know, Christian Science treatment. I decided no longer to agree mentally that she was hurt, and declared that God was already caring for her. I reminded her of a song about God’s love we often sing together, and told her to sing it in her thought and rest while her dad and I prayed. I then explained to the school nurse that we would pray for her for half an hour, and if she still wasn’t better, I would come to pick her up. 

I got off the phone and knew that this was an opportunity to demonstrate God’s healing power. I took a few minutes to pray. In my prayer, I declared that God, Spirit, is all power and fills all space. There was not a more effective medicine than divine Mind, divine Love. There was not a more caring physician than God, who was already right with her, to comfort her. 

I understood that the only thing my daughter, as God’s image and reflection, could feel or know or experience was God’s love and goodness. Her spiritual consciousness was feeling only God’s peace and harmony. There was not a spot where God was not. She was embraced in God’s love, and there could be no infection or intrusion in divine Love, where all was well. I affirmed that these thoughts to me from God were complete and effective. 

I never received another call from the school nurse, and my daughter ended up going back to class. Later that afternoon, when she returned home from school, the first thing she said to me was, “I feel great!” What more joy could a mother experience than to see her child free! 

God is indeed our medicine, our physician, and our immediate care. I have not enough words to express my gratitude for the teachings of Christian Science.

Dory Ferland

My wife called me while I was working at the office. She told me about Bridget and how she’d asked the nurse to let us pray for 30 minutes to see if the problem would be resolved and then decide if Bridget needed to be picked up from school.

I acknowledged the present perfection of God and my daughter as His beloved child. The divine Mind was hearing Bridget perfectly, and Bridget was hearing Mind perfectly. The belief of a material auditory nerve could not interfere with this seamless communication between Bridget and her true Parent. 

There was only one source, one cause—God—and His effect on Bridget could be truly felt right then. I rejoiced in the fact that God answers all of His children’s prayers (including mine). Not one of God’s loved ideas is left out. Bridget was not left out, and we could all rejoice in this wonderful truth.

I was glad when I spoke to my wife later that day and learned that when Bridget came home she said she felt great. Not just OK, or fine, but great! 

I thank my heavenly Father for His all-powerful good. As a parent I can say it is so comforting to know this care is always at hand.  We are never helpless.

Gabe Ferland