Gash on finger healed quickly
While babysitting my four-year-old grandson, I was outside watching him play with the family’s dog in the garden. They were both holding on to the same stick, but I hadn’t noticed that it had a short, sharp stem sticking out of it. As the dog ran off with the stick, the point of this stem sliced the length of my grandson’s baby finger. It was bleeding, and he was crying hard.
I put a clean napkin over the wound. Then, as a student of Christian Science, I naturally turned to the teachings of the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, pondering the spiritual fact of each of us—including my grandson—being God’s good creation. I pulled the child up onto my lap and talked to him about God. I assured him that the dog hadn’t meant to hurt him. And I told him that God was always protecting him and wouldn’t let anything bad happen to him.
He kept looking at his finger and complaining, “But it’s bleeding.” I encouraged him to join me in focusing more on God’s love and protection instead of his finger. Mrs. Eddy states in Science and Health: “If we look to the body for pleasure, we find pain; for Life, we find death; for Truth, we find error; for Spirit, we find its opposite, matter. Now reverse this action. Look away from the body into Truth and Love, the Principle of all happiness, harmony, and immortality” (pp. 260–261).
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