Love is what’s real

By Sky, fourth grade, Washington

One morning I got up to get ready for school but didn’t feel well. It was going to be an art day, and I like art a lot. I watched my brother and sister go outside and get on the school bus. I wished I could go with them. Instead, my dad helped me into my room.

While I was in my room I did my homework and also thought about a healing my Sunday School teacher told us. She had a headache one day and knew it was just bad thoughts, or “error,” trying to make her think God, Love, wasn’t with her. She knew she could pray and lift her thinking above the error, so the error would disappear. Instead of saying the day was ruined because she was feeling bad, she felt her thoughts being lifted up, up, up, to God’s love. She was healed.

The teacher also told us that God is good and is All. If God doesn’t make something, it doesn’t exist. I tried lifting up my thoughts to God. It didn’t work right away, because I had a lot of other thoughts like “My stomach doesn’t feel well” and “I don’t want to talk because my throat hurts.”

My mom came into my room and started reading the Christian Science Bible Lesson to me. The subject was “Love,” and it started with, “Love is of God” (I John 4:7). She read for a really long time—about 30 minutes. By the time she was finished reading and talking with me, it felt like Love was the only real thing.

KEN BAUGHMAN—STAFF

Love is the only creator, because Love is God. We’re not made up of hate or sadness. We’re totally made by Love. I knew my throat couldn’t hurt because all there is, is Love.

I thought about my Sunday School teacher’s healing again. That lifted all my bad thoughts away, and a couple of hours later I realized I was completely fine. I was so grateful that I was healed.

The next day I went to school, and all my homework I did the day before was perfect! I got all “checks,” which means everything was right. There were no X marks on my homework. That was the first time that happened. Knowing more about Love erased the mistakes from my thoughts, too.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

—I John 4:7

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