Here I tell of a Gran who was always warm and comforting and really helped cheer up a very dispirited little boy.  His name was Charlie, and he was feeling very depressed. He loved being on his computer playing games, but there was not much else to do as he had had to be on his own a lot, isolated from his friends, during what appeared to be a pandemic in his country.

His Gran reminded him about God’s care for everyone, including himself, and asked him if he’d like to do something which was fun. She said that he could start on a big adventure right now!  He was intrigued.  It sounded as though this was going to be fun!

“Keep your eyes closed to start off and pretend you’re in a space pod!”

She told him that space pods always get their instructions from the  “Mother ship”  and that in this divine adventure, this would mean listening to messages from God.

When we go to Sunday School, we learn that God only sends us good thoughts, which always make us feel good too. They inspire us to think of others and express God’s goodness to everybody, everywhere.

Gran said that in his “space pod” he would have to "radio in” as God is always supplying us with love; he’d be caring for him wherever he went, communicating with him and giving him everything necessary. These would be important missions that only he could do.

Charlie’s missions, therefore, were to express God and be a beam of love where ever he was sent.

Charlie got really excited about this as he’d be flying in his own shuttle, absolutely safe. It sounded like a fun thing to do; listening to instructions from the “Mother ship”. He’d be going out and expressing Love as Love is always needed.

He’d be on radio alert every moment so his space pod mission could be valiant, kind, and helpful.

Of course, he got great missions.  He walked a friend’s dog, wrote to people who were lonely, and did clean-ups for others. This divine adventure took him to places in his thoughts where he’d never been before!

It really was fun!

What’s more is that another boy, Zac, found he could improve on the jobs he did too. He had been asked to feed the neighbours cats while the family went on holiday for two weeks. But on the first day, he found, to his horror, that he had been given the wrong key.  It looked like a gloomy situation. But refusing to give in to the gloom, he noticed that the cat flap in the door was rather a large one! Perhaps he might be able to get into the cats through it…. and to his delight, he found it was easy. So he was able to fulfill this mission. Charlie would have been interested in that one, wouldn’t he?

Eventually, Zac found the right key on a shelf above their baskets, so the cats were going to be alright!! 

Doesn’t Mrs. Eddy note that “Devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible”?  She’s right, isn’t she? It does?

I found this helpful story in the Christian Science Sentinel [Vol 123 Issues 3 &4]