Karen Proves Love's Care

[Of special interest to children]

DOROTHY H. JONES

On the first day of school, Karen lost her new blue purse. When she went home, she told her mother all the places she had looked without finding her purse.

Karen had proved several times before that nothing is ever lost in divine Mind. But she was so upset about her pretty blue purse that she began to cry.

"If I knew just where I lost it," Karen said to her mother, "I could tell God to take care of it for me until I could find it!" Just then an angel thought came to Karen. "But I don't have to tell God, do I?" she asked aloud. "God is everywhere, taking care of the whole world!"

As a Christian Scientist, Karen knew that God, Mind, is omnipresent, which means that He is everywhere at all times, in control of His perfect spiritual creation. Still, it was hard for Karen to picture God as being able to keep up with such a small thing as her blue purse.

Karen asked her mother to read some passages from the Bible and from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. Karen and her mother always studied these books when they needed to prove that error is unreal.

In the Bible they read: "Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?" ^{Matt. 6:26;}

As Karen listened, she remembered that when Christ Jesus spoke these words centuries ago, he was telling all mankind that God's tender love and care for His children can always be counted on and that it never fails.

She remembered stories she had been told about Bible characters who had been in all sorts of trouble but who had been rescued from their troubles by trusting in God's care. Karen told herself that she too would have to trust God. She would have to stop worrying about her blue purse and know that God was watching over her just as He watched over the fowls of the air.

Her mother then read from Science and Health, "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need."' ^{Science and Health, p. 494.}

"Well," Karen thought, "I need my blue purse very much to hold my lunch money, pencils, handkerchief, and my comb. So divine Love will meet my need."

After that, Karen felt so much happier that she declared, "Now I know that God is taking care of me, and He'll bring my purse back to me!"

The next afternoon when Karen came in from school, she was waving her blue purse. She told her mother: "When I was walking toward the bus stop this morning, a car stopped at the curb. A man got out and handed me my blue purse. He asked me if I knew the little girl who had lost it on the street the day before. I told him that I was the little girl; and he was very glad !"

Karen was pleased to have her pretty blue purse back again. But she was even happier because she had learned that divine Love cares for each of us and meets our every need and that we can never lose anything good.

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