“Innocence” can suggest vulnerability when dealing with evils like racism. But there’s a spiritual take on this quality that shows how it can touch a hardened heart – as a young white woman witnessed when threatened with punishment for helping black children.
by Jane Hickson
From the Christian Science Sentinel – June 11, 2020
Originally published in The Christian Science Monitor’s Christian Science Perspective column, June 5, 2020.
As I consider recent tragic events in my home state of Georgia and in Minnesota that have become global headlines, I find hope in these words by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science: “The necessity for uplifting the race is father to the fact that Mind can do it; for Mind can impart purity instead of impurity, strength instead of weakness, and health instead of disease” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 371).
I experienced the healing, purifying power of God, divine Mind, firsthand as a teenager in the 1960s, when I worked in a kindergarten program for rural Black children. One evening I was at my friend’s house when her dad called an after-dinner meeting with us in the living room, which always meant he was upset with one of us, and this time it was me. He said he had heard about the work I was doing, and that I had been seen holding one of the children’s hands while crossing the street and seen with another of the children sitting in my lap. He felt these loving actions merited the harsh retribution of corporal punishment . . .
As she reached out immediately to God, the angel thoughts that came to her and then her loving response, turned an alarming situation into immediate peace and family harmony. Click here to view the article: https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/pntm38wfh6?s=e
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