Cathy Proves God's Love

[Of Special Interest to Children]

HAZEL I. LOWELL

The sun was shining brightly as Cathy skipped along the path to the house next door. She had been invited to spend the afternoon with Johnny and Joey.

The garden was soon filled with laughter as the children played near the flowers that bordered the lawn in neat clusters. Suddenly a bee among the flowers flew out toward the children. The boys stood quietly; but Cathy was frightened and began to run as the bee circled around them. Then it flew down on Cathy and stung her. She began to cry.

Johnny ran into the house calling, "Mother, a bee stung Cathy!"

Now, Cathy was pupil in the Christian Science Sunday School which Johnny and Joey also attended. There they had learned that God is Love and that God's spiritual creation expresses the harmony of divine Love.

Johnny and Joey's mother was talking on the telephone with a Christian Science practitioner, and she repeated to her the words, "A bee stung Cathy." The boys' mother was aware that Cathy also knew the practitioner. So she invited Cathy to come to the telephone.

Cathy and the practitioner recalled together these statements from the Bible (I John 4:8, 18): "God is love. ... There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear."

"God loves you very much," the practitioner assured Cathy. Then she asked, "Do you know that God loves the bee also?"

Cathy stopped crying. She had not thought about God loving the bee too.

From Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, the practitioner quoted this statement (p. 514): "All of God's creatures, moving in the harmony of Science, are harmless, useful, indestructible."

Cathy had experienced God's healing care in the solving of other problems; so she understood that if God is everywhere present, and God is Love, then Love is everywhere present.

The practitioner explained further that fear can find no place in our thought when we are conscious of the all-presence of Love because "perfect love casteth out fear." When we accept the truth that Love is everywhere and that we are Love's spiritual ideas, Love melts away the remembrance or false picture that fear has made.

Then the practitioner quoted Christ Jesus' words in the Lord's Prayer, "And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors" (Matt. 6:12), and reminded Cathy of Mrs. Eddy's interpretation of them (Science and Health, p. 17), "And Love is reflected in love."

Cathy was quiet. Then she said: "I don't hurt now. I know God loves me. I'm going out and play with Johnny and Joey."

When she returned to her home later, Cathy told her mother what had happened, and together they expressed gratitude for the instantaneous healing and for the proof of God's love.

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