For Teens August 20, 2018 ISSUE

Stress-free paper writing

Lindsey Biggs

It was exam time. I had already written five papers and had two more to go. On Friday night I started one of the two remaining assignments. I was feeling a lot of pressure because I needed to finish this paper by Saturday afternoon in order to complete my last one on Monday. Also, I’d never written this particular type of paper before, and I didn’t know where to start.

On the private Facebook group for our class, I posted that I was freaking out about this assignment. My classmates offered their own laments. Reading their complaints woke me up. I realized I needed to pray—not just for myself, but for everyone. As a Christian Scientist, I’d had many experiences in which feeling more of the presence and power of God had brought a shift in my perspective about something—relieving me of stress, or helping me or someone I was praying for in some other tangible way.

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