One afternoon, I received a call at the office from the woman who cares for our children while I am away, telling me that one of our sons had been involved in a serious accident in the lobby of our apartment building. She said that a neighbor had called a local physician. Also the police had brought an ambulance, and they wanted to take the child away immediately. She said to me, "They say he's in a bad way." The woman is a dedicated Christian Scientist. So I asked her to take the boy upstairs to our apartment and added that I would come home immediately.
As I entered a taxi, I asked the driver please to hurry since my son had been in an accident. He said: "Lady, it's rush hour, I can't hurry. But see if you can't relax; he'll be all right. The doctor's with him, isn't he?"
It came to me with a flood of joy that of course he was all right! He was not in strange hands, critical and uncomprehending. As Christian Scientists, we had as our Physician omnipotent God, and God was indeed with the boy. The Christ Science was already operating and acting as the occasion required. I saw too that since God is our universal Father-Mother, the boy's Mother was with him, embracing him in a perimeter of comfort, understanding, and care.
