Our healings

Three children from a Christian Science Sunday School in Washington State share with the Sentinel how they’ve been healed through prayer.

Quickly healed 

One day at camp our tent was serving breakfast. All of a sudden I didn’t feel well. I went over to my auntie, who was the Christian Science practitioner at camp. She gave me a hug and started talking about how much God loves me. We got up and started walking to the “quiet house,” which was the little cabin where she was staying. There we could be alone for a little bit. Even though it was hard for me to walk, my auntie helped me and kept telling me the truth about God’s love for me. When we got to the “quiet house,” my auntie had me lie down on the couch. She covered me up with a blanket, but all of a sudden I felt like going back to breakfast. So we went back, and I ate a big pancake breakfast. I was fine.

I was so happy about it that I told about this healing at our Wednesday testimony meeting. I learned to let God in my thought, and I know now that Christian Science heals!

By Alieysia
Alieysia loves to swim, play basketball, sing music, play soccer, and go hiking.

I didn’t cough even once! 

One day I was coughing a lot. I didn’t want to go to school with a cough, so I called my Sunday School teacher. She said she would pray for me. She told me I had the armor of God on, and it was on everyone else, too! I knew I could use the sword of Spirit every time the thought of cough came. That meant getting rid of the “cough thought” by listening to a good thought from God. Right when I got to school the cough stopped, and I felt better. When my mom picked me up from school, the first thing I told her was that I didn’t cough even once. It was awesome!

By Isaac
Isaac likes to play baseball and violin. He enjoys spending time with family and loves Wednesday nights at church.

Not afraid of bees anymore

When I was at camp last summer, I was stung by four bees. The first two stung me at the same time. I was at a camp for Christian Scientists, and the Christian Science practitioner there sat with me and helped me pray. We thought about not being afraid of the bees because God made the bees, too. I felt a lot better right away, but I was still a little afraid of the bees.

Then, a few days later, I was stung two more times. I panicked a little bit, but then I thought: “What am I doing? The bees are afraid and I am afraid. We all need to stop being afraid!” I could love the bees then, because I knew the bees were made of God’s love just like I was.

The practitioner prayed with me and I felt better right away. From then on, I wasn’t afraid of the bees at all. Even when some yellow jackets landed on my hamburger a few days later, I just told them they didn’t belong there and to leave my food alone. They did! I even helped some of my friends to not be afraid any more. When my mom picked me up from camp, I tried to show her where I was stung, but I couldn’t find any marks. They had completely disappeared. 

I wrote a poem I want to share with you:

All is precious,
All is Mind,
All is good,
And all is kind.

By Jade
Jade likes playing soccer, violin, spending time with her friends, and, like her brother, Issac, loves Wednesday nights at church.