Article January 1, 2000 Issue

"A different perspective"

Pablo Campás Ohnikian

I learned about Christian Science through my mom, and soon all my family started attending church. We liked the explanations about the Bible. Then I began going to Sunday School, and it was nice because the teachers would help us whenever we came with any doubt or problem.

In 1998 I went to a big gathering of college students, held at The Mother Church in Boston. It was beautiful, and I got to know students from other parts of the world. There was a lot of unity among us. When you know you can solve problems through prayer, you see things from a different perspective — a spiritual one. All those students agreed on this point.

Something that happened there showed me how powerful this spiritual perspective is. One day, a girl from our group couldn't find her money. She became very anxious because that was the only money she had left, and we had to return to Argentina soon. We all began praying with her. The girl calmed down and began praying, too. We knew that nothing was lost to God, and that God is everywhere. Then the girl looked everywhere very carefully in the dorm where we were staying. And she found the money in a pocket of her jacket.

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