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A healing at the beach
I was playing on the beach with my mommy and daddy when I saw a sparkly, round blue thing lying on the sand. It was very pretty, so I picked it up to look at it.
It was a jellyfish. It had a long tail, and when the wind blew, the tail whipped around and stung me.
It hurt so much! And there were rashes on me where I’d been stung.
I couldn’t stop crying, so we left the beach. I said I was never going in the ocean again!
On the way home, my daddy reached into the back of the car where I was sitting so he could hold my hand. That made me feel better. Then I thought of something I learned in Christian Science Sunday School that also made me feel better.
I said, “I am God’s perfect child, right?”
My dad said, “Yes, of course you are!”
Right then, I stopped crying. I wasn’t scared or hurting anymore because I knew that since I was perfect, I couldn’t be hurting. God was always keeping me safe, just the way He made me.
By the next day the rashes were gone. I knew I didn’t have to be afraid of going to the beach again, because God would always be with me. There’s not a spot on me, or at the beach, or anywhere else where God is not. In the afternoon we went back to the beach, and I had so much fun snorkeling.
April 5, 2021 issue
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Keeping Watch
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Taking sides? There’s another option.
Karen Neff
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"L’Eggo” my ego
Ginger Emden
Poetry
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It begins quietly in the wilderness
David C. Kennedy
Keeping Watch
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The healing power of fidelity
Robert Tokheim
How I found Christian Science
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Scientific prayer changed my life
Terri Murdock
Kids
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A healing at the beach
Jennifer
Healings
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Immobility healed
Judith DeNoyer
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Crisis averted during pandemic
Jodie Eva Cook
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Safe after a fall
Janet Griswold Gordon
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No more elbow pain
Robert R. MacKusick
Bible Lens
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Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real?
April 5–11, 2021
From our readers
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Letters & Conversations
Bob Coleman, Diane Wendelberger, Gloria Helmuth, Nancy Street