Article January 27, 1992 Issue

Prayer from the whole heart is all-embracing prayer

Kiyo Yada

A life of prayer is not an inactive life—as the experiences here illustrate. Whether we are encountering new cultures and new nations, working for a more law-abiding community, or meeting career challenges in our particular field, prayer brings a more expansive outlook. It broadens our understanding of God's power and the scope of our love. As we reach deep into what the Bible calls "the things of the Spirit," we find we have riches to spare and to share.

My father was a leading diplomat. So my parents were out of the country often. The first ten years of my life I was brought up by my grandparents. When I was ten, my parents were going to Canada, and my sister and I went with them. We were put in an Episcopal school. That was our first introduction to Christianity.

Years later I learned about Christian Science from my sister, who was going through a difficult period. Married and with a baby, she had to live with relatives because her own house had been destroyed by an earthquake. One day a friend spoke of Christian Science and said that it heals. That caught my sister's attention. Soon she began going to the first Christian Science practitioner in Japan.

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