Praying for the World April 27, 2026 Issue

Praying with confidence for your community

Everyone has the ability to feel God’s presence and respond to God’s leading.

Anne Melville

Have you ever thought that you would love to pray about a community issue, or even a world issue, but felt you didn’t know how? Or maybe you felt that your prayer couldn’t make a difference anyway. Well, I used to think that way, too, but then I had a lovely healing experience years ago that taught me how effective prayer in Christian Science can be.

When my son was at intermediate school, his jacket was stolen. Right off, I was determined that I was not going to just resign myself to this theft. Because it wasn’t in accord with God’s law of good, I knew I didn’t need to accept the notion that loss was inevitable. I knew that this misperception could be corrected.

At that time, my family had to be very careful with money, but that wasn’t what concerned me. It was the disillusionment that I was tempted to feel about our community. Could I not trust my community? Did I have to be on the alert so that I wouldn’t be cheated?

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