Article October 25, 2010 Issue

FOR TEENS

ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL

BY IFIGENIA XIFRÉ

I WAS JUST TWO DAYS away from my trip to the United States. I was going to study at Principia, a school for Christian Scientists, where I didn't know anybody.

As I was getting ready at a salon, a stylist accidentally burned my face with hot wax when she was waxing my upper lip. When I got home, I told my mom what had happened, and immediately we began to pray. We also called a Christian Science practitioner to help us pray, becaue I was really afraid. My skin had started to look very ugly and rough.

The practitioner directed me to several citations from Science and Health so that I could read quietly and calm my thought. She'd noticed that my biggest fear was what others might think, in a country that was then unknown to me. So the practitioner said something like this: "When you pray, pray so that everyone will see what is inside you—not just your appearance, but who you really are as a child of God."

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About the author

Ifigenia Xifré, known as lfi, is from Montevideo, Uruguay, and is a student of political science (International Relations track) at Principia College.

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