From Kids April 29, 2019 Issue

No more scary thoughts

Sophie

I used to be scared of a lot of things. I was scared of going up the stairs at my school if no one was with me, and of going into the girls’ bathroom alone. I was also scared of going upstairs to my bedroom if nobody was with me, and of falling asleep at night by myself in my dark room after Mommy and Daddy put me to bed. My house and school seemed so big and scary, and I felt like there was a monster following me everywhere I went.

But then one day I suddenly had the idea of saying a simple prayer to myself. I had learned in the Christian Science Sunday School that God is Love and fills all space. So my prayer was, “God is with me. God is with me.”

At night, when my mom was putting me to bed, we would pray the Lord’s Prayer and say a little rhyme that I’d also learned in Sunday School: “There is no spot where God is not.”

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