Tommy Proves Love Is Mind

[Of Special Interest to Children]

MARION M. BISHOP

Tommy had a new jackknife with shiny blades and a pretty red stripe across the sides, and he was pleased with it. His father had shown him how to open the blades carefully and told him to always cut away from himself rather than toward his hands while using it. Tommy spent many happy hours playing with the knife.

But one spring morning after he had been out of doors for a while, he came in and told his mother that the knife was lost and that he wanted her to come and help search for it. Mother was busy at the time with household tasks and could not leave. But she reminded Tommy of what he had learned in Sunday School of God's loving care. He had gone to the Christian Science Sunday School only a few months, but he had already learned that "Father-Mother" is one name for God and that this name means "Love."

He knew the first verse of the twenty-third Psalm, "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want," and Mother explained that because God, or Love, is our Shepherd, He cares for us in every way, even as a shepherd cares for his sheep. We need not want or lack or lose any good thing. Divine Love will not allow its child to be separated from any good. And Love is also Mind, which knows everything and where everything is, all at the same time. Jesus had proved this to his followers.

"You just ask God to be your Shepherd and show you where to look," said Mother, "and as soon as I can I will come out to be with you."

After Tommy had gone out again, she spent some thought in knowing that all ideas are in their right place in Mind and that, of course, an idea cannot get out of Mind.

Soon a happy Tommy came running into the house calling to Mother: "Here it is! Here it is! I asked God to show me where it was, and I found it right by the chicken house."

Mother was glad with Tommy, not only for the knife, but for the lesson of turning to Love, or Mind, for help. She reminded Tommy to say, "Thank You," to God for helping him, and later she read to him from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy this helpful sentence on page 444: "Step by step will those who trust Him find that 'God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.'"

O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. . . . Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.—Psalm 90:14, 16, 17.

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