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Turning to prayer first
Originally appeared online in the teen series: Your Healings - June 19, 2018
I was sitting in my room at school, trying to finish a piece of homework, when suddenly my stomach started to hurt. At first I didn’t really know what to do. Then I tried changing my position to make it feel better, but nothing was working.
I had seen Christian Science healings before in my family, so I knew that healing through prayer was possible. One time my horse became really unwell, and the vets thought that he should be put down. But after my grandma prayed for him, he improved really quickly and was back to normal in a month. But even though I’d seen this great healing, I had never prayed for myself before.
In the Christian Science Sunday School I had learned many ways I could pray about difficult situations, but I found it hard to consciously think about prayer or how to pray when a problem arose. So in the past, I’d tended to look for physical help rather than spiritual.
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June 10, 2019 issue
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From the readers
Katherine Ball, Billie Leafgreen, Robert Sibley
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The healing effect of true self-knowledge
John Biggs
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How do we know what is real?
Paul Trowbridge
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A Father we can all count on
Cathrine Hogg
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Praying for our adult children— a joyful endeavor
Blythe Evans
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Answering the call from hungering hearts—wherever we are
Samuela Orth-Moore
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We helped with our church’s Christian Science lecture!
Sandrina, Beatrice, MacArthur, Harrison, Hazel, Sandy
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Turning to prayer first
Emily Holden
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Alcoholism healed
Sharon Dec
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A family’s blessings
Virginia Pennington
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Healing of foot pain
Cathryn Maycock Rathsam
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'The crude creations of mortal thought ...'
Photograph by Karen Goodspeed Hertlein
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A solid basis for emotional well-being
Larissa Snorek