In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

Praying all by myself 

I learned in Sunday School that these ideas we talked about weren’t just for Sundays. They were for every day. I could pray with them and be healed.
After beginning my study of Christian Science, I became conscious for the first time that through God-directed prayer, I could grow out of anything that did not align with God’s idea of me as a perfect, spiritual expression of His nature and qualities. Now I wondered if this could include changing my view of children.
We can see evidence of things working together for good not only in big situations but also in humble circumstances, such as a career change accomplished, a gnarly interpersonal problem overcome, or someone healed physically by turning to God.
Their daughter had leukemia, and her doctor had sent her home, explaining that she had only a few more weeks to live. I agreed to pray for her.
My husband said, “God is in control.” Right away, I felt a deep calm take over and the rising panic fade.
Right where evil seemed to rear its head in dramatic fashion, right there we could celebrate God’s presence and rejoice in His power to supply freedom, peace, and security.
It’s precisely because we are, in our true being, not physical at all but purely spiritual—each of us a reflection of the Divine­—that music touches us so deeply.
Even in times of crisis, our thoughts can expand in reaching hungry hearts and blessing them with healing.

Conquering the waves of fear 

This counselor-in-training should have been looking forward to the adventures of white-water rafting during a high-water year. Instead, she felt stuck in a fog of fear. But as she turned to the Bible and Science and Health, she found answers that helped both her and her rafting buddies.
At that moment, just before the election, what was ailing me most was the notion that I was living in a post-Truth world—a world where the God I had come to know as infinitely good couldn’t be trusted, a world where I couldn’t trust others, a world that seemed to be drowning in a sea of mistrust and fear.
I started praying, and the thought that came to me was a camp song.
Who knew that removing self-justification from my thought would have such a huge impact?