When we were fairly new students of Christian Science, one of our little boys severely injured his finger—the tip of it was severed by a paper cutter at school.
Our son was brought home, and when I saw him, for a moment I didn't know what to do —to take him to our former doctor or to call a Christian Science practitioner for treatment through prayer. I decided on the latter. My son told me that at the time of the accident all he could remember of his Sunday School teaching was "God is Love," and he clung to that—repeating it over and over again to himself during all the confusion going on around him.
As I bandaged the finger, my son and I both held to our certainty that God was in control. The next day he was back in school, just as active as ever. But I had a few moments of doubt. Had I done the right thing? Should I have taken him to the doctor? Such doubts were quickly dispelled when I started to read the Bible Lesson (found in the Christian Science Quarterly) for that week. As I read from Psalms "For in thee do I put my trust" (16:1), the words had a double meaning for me. Not only did they assure me that I could have unswerving, absolute trust in God. They also reminded me that although this child had been entrusted to my care, he was not really mine but God's—God's beloved child, God's "trust." And I could put him right where he belonged— in God's care.
