It is a time of year to especially remember how God protects our children in school from contagion, colds, and flu.

When my kids head off to class each day, it helps me to remember that Christ goes before them. They do not venture off into a wild jungle of unknowns that may strike haphazardly. God’s vigilant and omnipresent Love greets them at the school door, walks through the hall at their side, sits with them in class and brings them safely home. They are not alone. God hovers over them, surrounds them, acts like an impenetrable bubble of protection to them, and ensures their enduring health and well being.

God’s children are God’s ideas. Each child is an idea conceived, cherished and upheld in divine Love. This fact never changes whether the child is at home, at the mall, outside in the weather, or with hundreds of other children. God’s idea is always God’s idea—healthy, immune, safe and protected.

So, have no fear. Gird your little ones with truth and love. See their spiritual immunity to any false belief of harm, and enjoy the winter with splendid good health and cheery disposition.

“When the condition is present which you say induces disease, whether it be air, exercise, heredity, contagion, or accident, then perform your office as porter and shut out these unhealthy thoughts and fears. Exclude from mortal mind the offending errors; then the body cannot suffer from them.” Mary Baker Eddy