Never left out
This past summer I was at the beach with my family. One day I was walking back from the pool to our villa, and my legs became very irritated. I couldn’t walk normally or run at all. I was really sad because I was supposed to play tennis the next day. I told my mom, and she said we could pray about it.
“God’s feathers can’t be ruffled,” she said. I knew that God didn’t actually have feathers! So I prayed about what she meant, since she had said that many times before. She meant God is not ruffled, impressed, or upset, so as His reflection, I can’t be either. God’s thoughts are gentle and calm, and mine can be, too.
I kept praying, since I still couldn’t walk normally. So I went back to my mom, and she told me that she had the same problem years ago, and it was healed really quickly. She had walked miles on the beach when this problem happened, and she needed to walk miles back. So she told me she’d prayed with a few ideas. One of them was that she was praying to know she was spiritual, not material. Also, she remembered that she was having trouble with someone in her family. And she saw it was mortal mind, or error, trying to make her upset and present this ugly picture of irritation on her body. Then she thought about how God’s “feathers are not ruffled!”
In a poem that is also a hymn, Mary Baker Eddy talks about being “like brother birds, that soar and sing” (Christian Science Hymnal, No. 30). Once my mom corrected her thoughts, the irritation on her body was healed.
I kept praying. I had been a little sad because my brother wanted to spend time with his first girlfriend, not me. My feelings were hurt, and I felt alone. But when I prayed about being “brother birds,” I saw that it was my feeling left out that needed to change. I saw that I could never be left out of God’s love. Divine Love is not limited; it is super huge (Mrs. Eddy says God, Love, is “infinite”), and God’s wings cover me, my brother, his new friend, my family, and everyone and everything in the whole world!
That night I felt much better, and my brother sat with me at dinner. Also, he let me sit with him and his girlfriend at the tennis game. The next day my legs were fine, and I played all day. I had so much fun! And I was happy to understand that I could not be left out of Love.
