Teens July 9, 2018 Issue

Healing and the ripple effect

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My older brother was going through a rough time and wasn’t very happy with where he was in his life. He also wasn’t very open to Christian Science, even though we both had gone to the Christian Science Sunday School when we were younger. During this time, my foot became very irritated, itching almost constantly. It was really hard to avoid scratching it, but I tried to ignore the irritation, hoping it would eventually go away.

To be honest, my mum and I were so focused on praying about the situation with my brother that it didn’t really occur to me to pray about my foot. As we prayed, I was very grateful for what I’ve learned in Christian Science about the fact that each of us is the child of God, and nothing can change that. You don’t have to call yourself a Christian Scientist or even believe in the ideas in order to be God’s child. That’s just what we are. No matter the circumstance, the spiritual fact is that each of us is always loving and loved, safe, joyful, and peaceful, because that is the way God created His children, and what God made can’t be reversed.

Through other healings we’ve had in our family, my mum and I knew that the best way to help my brother was to see him the same way God sees him. God is good, so God sees only good. We prayed for God to help us see this goodness in my brother, too. We knew that his one and only identity is spiritual and pure and that this identity could never be taken away from him. This meant so much to me, because it reassured me that no matter what difficult things seemed to be going on, the underlying truth about the way God made him was still true.

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