Article May 27, 2013 ISSUE

My spiritual armor was protecting me

Soliana

Once when I was sleeping, I started to cough and I couldn’t go to sleep. So the next morning, I told my mom about my cough keeping me awake. My mom prayed for me, and she told me to read some healings from other children in a book called My Treasury. When I was looking through the book, I saw a prayer that helped me, called “God is with me through the night” by Kathryn Crosby Escruceria. It went like this:

God is with me through the night
See you in the morning light
All around me are His arms
Guarding me from any harm.

God is here and I am dear
God is Love—I cannot fear
See you in the morning light
God is with me through the night.

This prayer helped me to know that God is with me not only through the day but also at night. Since God loves me, that means I couldn’t be afraid, even of falling asleep or of a cough, because God is with me all the time. I used good thoughts, my spiritual armor, given to me by God to protect me from any fearful thoughts. I said the prayer so much to myself that I memorized it. The next night I slept more easily.

I kept on saying the prayer to myself. And I thought about what my mom shared with me. She said that I live and move and breathe in God.

A couple of days later, I was completely healed. I was so grateful that I was feeling well and ended up teaching my mom the prayer.

Soliana, 11
Falls Church, Virginia