The yellow bus chugged up the hill, and at the tenth stop Wendy jumped out to walk the last block home.

Since Wendy arrives home from school earlier than her older brother and sister, Jack and Cheryl, she plays until they come. Then Wendy knows that it is time for each of them to do his homework.

This afternoon Wendy couldn't find the paper her teacher had given the class to complete at home. She remembered having some papers in her hand as she came into the house. So she supposed her homework paper was there somewhere. She began to look around the house, asking, "Did anybody see my homework?"

Since she couldn't find it, Wendy sat down and watched television. It was nearly dinnertime when she really began to worry. She thought of how her teacher had scolded her once for not returning a paper. Wendy dreaded facing school tomorrow morning without having any homework to hand in to her teacher.

Mother reminded Wendy that she could turn to God right now. Mrs. Eddy tells us: "God gives you His spiritual ideas, and in turn, they give you daily supplies. Never ask for to-morrow: it is enough that divine Love is an ever-present help; and if you wait, never doubting, you will have all you need every moment." ^{Miscellaneous Writings, p. 307;} When we are disturbed or afraid, we are not letting God's spiritual ideas fill today's need. Wendy felt calmer, and began to look for her paper again.

"Maybe you dropped it on the way home from the bus stop," Jack said, trying to be helpful. Wendy sounded very certain when she said, "No! I know it must be in the house."

Mother saw Wendy searching about. "Go outside and look where you walked home from school," she said. "The paper could have slipped out of your hand between the other papers."

But Wendy insisted, "No! I know it is in this house."

It was dark outside, and Wendy still hadn't found her paper. She was more thoughtful now as she went to talk with Mother. Mother was sitting at her desk going through papers and drawers.

"I can't find a check I got in the mail today. It was here a minute ago!" Mother exclaimed.

Wendy looked at Mother, and Mother looked at Wendy. They saw that both of them needed to stop searching for material things and look within their own thinking for God's spiritual ideas. Christian Science shows that God's order and care are always present for all His creation to express.

"We must really turn to God now!" Mother declared.

They began thinking about the many good thoughts God is constantly pouring forth for each of us. Christ Jesus said, "Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you." ^{Luke 17:21.} There is not just a little good here and a lot of good someplace else. God's supply of spiritual ideas is endless. Good is everywhere. We can wake up to God's kingdom of perfect ideas within our own thinking. There is an infinite number of right ideas coming to us now!

God is always giving us spiritual ideas, which tell us we are really His spiritual children, already complete and not lacking a thing. As Mother and Wendy prayed, they began to see that somehow God's thoughts were going to show them how to solve their problems. God's kingdom included all the wisdom, obedience, love, and order they needed.

Wendy and her mother knew that they could demonstrate spiritual completeness right then. God would show them how to do it in a calm and orderly way.

Wendy and Mother came to trust God's care. They knew He was present and would instruct them with His right ideas. In a few minutes Mother lifted some papers on her desk. There was her check underneath!

A short while later Mother said, "Jack, go with Wendy to the bus stop. Help her look for the lost paper. You'll need to take a flashlight."

Wendy thought that was a good idea. She no longer insisted her paper was in the house. She went with Jack. In a few minutes, with her brother not far behind, she came dashing back into the house. "We found the missing paper in the ivy bushes in front of the house!" shouted Wendy.

Wendy thanked her Father, God, for His spiritual ideas and the lessons she and Mother had learned in practicing them. Wendy continued to be obedient to right ideas within. She was careful to put her school papers in her purse or coat pocket. And she didn't lose her homework again.

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

II Corinthians 3:5, 6