A Little Practitioner

Judith R. Erikson

I know a little girl who practices Christian Science healing very well. That means she helps people through prayer. Her name is Julie. She is two and a half years old and goes to a Christian Science Sunday School. There she is learning many things about God and how God, who is Love, heals us all.

One morning she and her mother were out shopping. Julie felt bad with what's called an attack of flu. Her mother knew God's love is the best healer. So right away they talked together about what Julie had been learning in Sunday School. She had learned what Christ Jesus knew, that God is always caring for us. Said Julie, "I'm always with God, and God's always with me."

Her mother then told Julie that in the book of Genesis the Bible says, "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."^{Gen. 1:31;} Julie understood. She could see that everything she had came from God. Since God does not make bad things like sickness, she could not have any. She knew that the flu wasn't good, and so it wasn't from God. And she could not have it. Because she really understood this, she was quickly healed. But, more important, Julie remembered how she was healed.

Later that very day Julie's older sister came home from school complaining of flu. But Julie knew that her sister was always with God and God was always with her. She knew that God made her good, not sick. So she went to her sister's room and told her, "God didn't make bad things. The flu isn't good, and so you can't have it. Get up. You're fine!" With that her sister was healed, and they played happily together the rest of the afternoon. Julie was especially glad to have helped her big sister, because she had helped Julie many times before.

Now Julie's mother calls her a little practitioner. Perhaps you would like to be a practitioner too. Mary Baker Eddy says in Science and Health, "God, Spirit, alone created all, and called it good."^{Science and Health, p. 339.} Julie thinks of this in her own way: that everyone is always with God. God made everyone good. God didn't make bad things, so no one can have any. Whichever way you think of it, it's a good thing for all practitioners, big ones and little ones, to remember.

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