Camp hymn sing! What could be better? I was there with my friend, who was playing the music for the hymn sing. So I sat way up front on a long bench by the piano.  

Suddenly, a camper I’d never met before came over and plopped down next to me. I had just a couple of minutes to say hi and ask him about camp before the singing began. I thought he would share how happy he was to be there, with so many fun activities and new friends and a cool cabin to sleep in. But instead, he told me he was sad. He was really missing his grandma, whom he lived with at home. And then he said the hymn sing would make him feel even more sad, because his grandma always sang hymns to him before bed.

As he talked, I thought about something I’d learned in the Christian Science Sunday School that has always helped me so much: God is Love. All Love. So all the father-love in the world comes from God, and all the mother-love comes from God, and even all the grandma-love comes from God. I told my new friend that God’s love was right here at camp and also back at home with his grandma, because Love is everywhere, with everyone, all the time.