I’m a Christian Science Sunday School teacher, and I love sharing the Bible and Christian Science with the students—especially the healings and teachings of Christ Jesus.
I always pray to see the children as pure and innocent expressions of God. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy defines children, in part, as “the spiritual thoughts and representatives of Life, Truth, and Love” (p. 582). And Jesus called children to him and said, “Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God” (Luke 18:16).
One week I came to Sunday School with a bandaged hand, and when one of my students asked me why I was wearing a bandage, I told them what had happened. A couple of days before, the skin on the back of my hand had been scraped as I was helping a friend position his bicycle on the bicycle rack on his truck. At the time, I had prayed immediately, knowing that as God’s child, I was a spiritual idea forever in God’s perfect care. I knew that, in reality, God’s idea could never be hurt.
