Article July 17, 2017 Issue

I’m listening, God

Joel Magnes

Early in my study of Christian Science, one of the Readers at the local Church of Christ, Scientist, I’d begun attending invited me to join his family for a spring Sunday afternoon picnic at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx.

We had a delightful lunch, and then returned to his car to find a window smashed and his briefcase gone. After some initial disappointment was voiced, I noticed everyone got very quiet, and I recognized they must be praying.

This was new for me—praying in a crisis. Not being experienced at prayer, I just turned to God and listened. After a minute, mostly spent trying to look prayerful like everyone else, the idea came clearly to me to walk down the sidewalk by a chain-link fence that ran along a field. So I did.

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