"Temperature is mental"

Tonight I am working on my son - his head has felt hot and he lost his appetite for solid food today, and has had a tough time sleeping the last couple nights (keeping Daddy up in the process), so I'm working to know this is a temporary belief and not fact. As my son is hot, the thought came to look up "temperature" in a concordance. Only a couple references showed up, but one was concise - a marginal heading in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures which said "Temperature is mental" (p. 374).

While I was putting my son to bed earlier tonight, I began praying earnestly for him. As he laid in my arms drinking some cold milk, the thought occurred that he, like all of us, is constant. We are all perfect and good, have been, are and always will be. God created us this way, and nothing has the power to move us astray.

We are constant - there is no deviation, increase or decrease in our goodness or perfection or innocence. We have an infinite supply of all, and it never changes. My son wasn't created with a fever, so thre is no reason to believe that he should ever have one.

Understanding that temperature is mental gets me to thinking about my thought regarding my son. He doesn't know he doesn't feel good; he doesn't understand what a fever is. His mom and I don't tell him. His activity has been normal, so we've been working to understand that he is a happy boy and has been - and that is no reason for us to think anything should be different with him, temperature or otherwise.

Our thought of him as perfect, innocent, joyful and intelligent should not have changed recently; and if it has, we have to get back to that constancy - the steady drumbeat of declaring our son as innocent and not subject to erroneous beliefs.

The work continues, but there is a starting-point. Constant understanding of him as the perfect, unblemished, innocent and CONSTANT child of God.