When my oldest daughter was a child, we lived in El Prado, a very nice area of the city. She loved to go biking with her friend. I would always tell her not to go to a particular place that seemed to be dangerous because there was a lot of traffic. However, one day she went there. She was going very fast, and when she turned a corner where the road turned to gravel, the bike stopped suddenly and she flew off the bike and fell.
A neighbor brought her home. She had blood in her mouth and was in a lot of pain. I cleaned her up, put a clean nightgown on her, and sat her on my lap. Then I began reading to her the definition of Mind from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. It reads in part: “The children of God have but one Mind. How can good lapse into evil, when God, the Mind of man, never sins?” (p. 470). I feel this helped to restore her innocence, because she also felt guilty for going to a place I had told her not to go. Further down the citation says, “God is the creator of man, and the divine Principle of man remaining perfect, the divine idea or reflection, man, remains perfect.”
That night she slept in my bed, and I kept reading Science and Health almost all night to calm my thought down, and persistently knowing that she was well.
