One Wednesday evening, while attending a testimony meeting in our branch Church of Christ, Scientist, I got a call on my cellphone from my mom, who was the attendant in the childcare room that evening. She said our son had run into a wooden chair at full speed, hitting it with his forehead. As I left the auditorium to go be with him, I knew that the all-loving and ever-present God always protected our son. His true being, as a pure, innocent reflection of God, could not be injured.
I also recalled a question I’d read recently in a 1913 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel. The author asked, “How many of us have freed our thought entirely from the belief that error, evil, has had a history?” (Ira W. Packard, “Justification,” May 10, 1913). I knew the power of this question because, in a previous situation, it prompted a radical shift in my thought that led to complete healing. Through realizing the ever-presence of God’s love and care, I had been able to let go of the memory and rehearsal of an accident. This healed all the effects of it.
I trusted that I could see that the same love was there for our son. I knew I could step into the childcare room with confidence that no matter the physical picture, our little one was always protected as a carefully shepherded idea of God, and no accident could have a history in his experience.
