I heard God!

Nathan

We were going on a canoeing and caving trip! I was excited for another fun activity at the summer camp for Christian Scientists where I was spending several weeks.

For the trip, I wore a pair of thick blue jeans over my swim trunks. Everything started out well. We went into the cave and it was fun.

I was in the back of the line of campers when my leg got stuck in a crevice between the rocks inside the cave. I tried to pull my leg out and that didn’t work. That was a little scary.

We had a Christian Science practitioner with us. The practitioner said that we could be calm because God was right there. We could be calm and still and listening. Listening is a way of praying because it lets you hear good thoughts from God that help you.

We turned off our headlamps just for a second so we wouldn’t be distracted by seeing my leg stuck. In the dark, a thought came to me to calmly, gradually push the heavy jeans off, even though they were wedged in the rock area. When I did this, I was able to free my leg. The practitioner said she had the same thought at the same time!

After that, she told me about how God is the one, all-knowing Mind and how we are never separated from God even if it seems like we’re stuck “between a rock and a hard place.”

The rest of the trip was great! I’m grateful for the way I learned to listen to God.