My teenage daughter, Ella, and I had just headed out to go skiing together. But she quickly spotted a friend on the slopes, skied ahead to meet him, and then they were off! I tried to keep up, but she and her friend got on the chairlift ahead of me. My daughter is an accomplished skier and a ski instructor, who had often skied alone on this mountain, so I knew she would be all right.
I skied down the mountain on my own, and then met my wife at the ski lodge. Soon, she got a call on her cellphone. The call was to inform us that our daughter had had a serious accident while skiing, and that we should go to her immediately.
As we rode the chairlift up the mountain to get to our daughter, we discussed some prayerful thoughts that we would hold on to. These were thoughts of our daughter being perfect now, and always, because she is living as the idea of Mind, God, good; and that there were no accidents in God’s perfect realm because God could not know or allow accidents to occur (see Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 424). I also thought about how each one of us lives, moves, and has our being in God, and that this means that all the care, comfort, and love that Ella might ever need was already being provided by God.
