Article November 10, 2014 Issue

Pause and pray

Robert, fourth grade, Georgia

A few months ago I hurt my toe. My mom saw that I was limping, and I told her what had happened. She was reading the Christian Science Bible Lesson, and so she started reading out loud from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, right at the place where she was.

I didn’t understand what the sentences meant, so we looked up a lot of the words in the dictionary. It took us 30 minutes or more to do this. (I wasn’t expecting a big sermon, I just wanted to tell her about my toe and then go watch TV while she prayed for me!) But by the time we finished reading, I wasn’t limping anymore.

Here is what my mom read out loud from Science and Health to me:

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