My friend and I refer to it as my fight with the dog—the dog that lurked in the forest. But that's just our goofy way of describing the day last year when I crawled through a patch of poison oak in the woods behind my school. It's a lot of fun running around on the school property, but unfortunately, I had a bad reaction to poison oak that day. It didn't help that I'd had miserable experience with this plant twice before. I was pretty afraid.
My face began to puff up in the middle of a sleepover at my friend's house that night. I decided to go to my grandpa's house, since he lives next door. My grandpa really helped a lot. Since I was a little kid, my family and I have always turned to God for answers to our problems, and I've learned more about God and my relationship to Him in my Christian Science Sunday School.
My grandpa and I talked about the basics of prayer in Christian Science—that God created everything good, including me and plants—so nothing could really hurt me. There's a statement in Science and Health that explains this: "Since God is All, there is no room for His unlikeness. God, Spirit, alone created all, and called it good. Therefore evil, being contrary to good, is unreal, and cannot be the product of God." Science and Health, p. 339.
