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Stomachache healed
A few months ago I woke up in the morning, washed myself, and went to school as usual. After the first period my stomach started hurting. My classmates suggested I should ask for permission to go home. But I didn’t follow their advice. I stayed in school. I lay down on a bench and I started to pray the way I always do when I don’t feel well. I thought about the lessons I was learning in the Christian Science Sunday School. This is how I thought: “I am the image of God. I am like God. I am not material, but spiritual. In God’s kingdom there is no sickness.”
I remembered a story from the Bible that our Sunday School teacher had told us. It was about a paralyzed man who was healed when Jesus said to him: “Rise, take up your bed and walk” (John 5:8, New King James Version). The paralyzed man was happy to be able to walk again.
As I thought about this story, I understood that I, too, could be blessed by what Jesus had said. And I could be healed immediately. I also prayed with the truths from “the scientific statement of being” in Science and Health (see p. 468) that I knew by heart. They told me that I was completely spiritual.
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Laudes first shared his healing in the kids' edition of The Herald of Christian Science that was published in French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish in July 2011.
October 10, 2011 issue
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Letters
Mary E. Baxter, Sancy Nason, Marisa Flores
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A blessing for all
Kim Shippey, Senior Editor
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Boston churches honor September 11 anniversary
Sentinel staff
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Spiritual preparation for pregnancy and childbirth
By Ingrid Peschke
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A dad-to-be takes his cue from Joseph
By Trevor Snorek-Yates
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Praying for my grandson
By Lynne Scheiern
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Willing to change course?
By Sandra Justad
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Living God’s mercy
Michael Shays
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When my husband was fired: how I prayed
By Janet Davis
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Dance club angels
By Erin Plum
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Divine energy at exam time
By Valérie Roy
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Stomachache healed
Laudes
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Embody Church—all day, every day
By Sandra Shrewsbury
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‘. . . expectation speeds our progress’*
Wendy Ely
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A sense of belonging that is ‘gold’
Lynley Campton
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A spiritual response to drought and famine
Nellie Gitau
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Our unity with God
By Kathy Fitzer
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Protected from injury, challenges resolved
Elena Toft
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Infection and injury healed
Alexandre Fischer
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Shoulder injury healed
Andrew Heining
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Progress in process
The Editors