Are you sure?
This bookmark will be removed from all folders and any saved notes will be permanently removed.
My healings!
One time, our pet hermit crab disappeared and I was very upset. I was very attached to this little crab. It was getting dark and cold, a storm was coming that night, and he might not survive. My mom reminded me of the movie The Polar Express where the boy believed and wonderful things happened! She said, “Let’s believe that God will direct us to the hermit crab.” So I sat down, and I listened to God. Suddenly I jumped up and had an idea where my mom and I should look. We walked to that area, and there we found hermit crab tracks. Finally, right before it got dark, we found the crab clinging to a bush.
Another time I was windsurfing. I got really frustrated because I couldn’t tack. So I threw down the sail. And just then I slipped and fell. My ankle got caught in between the mast and the board. It hurt, but instead of crying, I prayed. I knew that God was with me. Then I got the strength to get up, get some speed, tack, and go back upwind to my mom, dad, and my friend. My ankle stopped hurting. When I got back to shore and thought about it, I saw how being frustrated and throwing down the sail was wrong. I knew my ankle didn’t hurt anymore because I was with God!
The other day at soccer practice I was practicing goalie when I sprained my finger. It turned purple and blue. I got a splint, but my finger still hurt. My mom helped me remember that I was an expression, or reflection, of God. Since God is not hurt, neither is His reflection. She read kids’ articles from the Sentinel to me. I prayed really hard, and by Sunday I could bend my finger again and make it touch my palm. The swelling was all gone. By the next Saturday I was able to play my favorite position—goalie!
Enjoy 1 free Sentinel article or audio program each month, including content from 1898 to today.
July 18, 2011 issue
View Issue-
Letters
Betty Hughes, Ed Hurter, Vicki Knickerbocker, Maralee Knowlen
-
Love marches on
Jenny Nelles
-
Church growth—grappling with the new norms
Amy Frykholm
-
Energy that is plentiful—and safe
Channing Walker
-
How is Truth revealing itself to you?
Genelle Austin-Lett
-
Protection during a tornado
By Paula Todd
-
My healings!
Rachel
-
The pure joy of running
By Shane Witters Hicks
-
A spiritual roadmap for saving our cities
By Susan Tish
-
Praying about terrorism in Jesus’ way
By Mark Swinney
-
A lens of love in Northern Ireland
By Hilary McCreary
-
Religion and the responsibility to love
By Lyle Young
-
All on this globe together
Rosalie E. Dunbar
-
Prayer in an earthquake
By Norman Anderson
-
A new President of the Board of Education
The Christian Science Board of Directors
-
When Christian Science dawned in my life
Mark DeGange
-
The burning bush
Anne Dixon
-
Healed of severe digestive condition
Gail Moeller
-
Lump in breast dissolved
Carmem Tereza Fonseca Medeiros
-
Grateful for many healings
Jan Arend Clarke
-
Your divine ‘career counselor’
The Editors