In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

Horse trouble. Horse triumph.

Relia Reed

Assigned to an especially difficult horse at camp, this teen wasn’t sure this was a challenge she could overcome. But one spiritual breakthrough opened the way for an awesome rest of the summer.

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Alert, alive, awake, aware!

Judy Olson

To the extent that I daily defend my natural obedience to God, I remain alert, and I am learning that this is not a chore but the best and most important time of the day.

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Deliver me from “the violent man”

Judy Cole

Applying in a practical way the knowledge of our God-given exemption from evil was important in my work as a youth corrections counselor.

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When I stopped letting age define me

Robert E. J. Wehman

In my late teens, I wanted to learn to play the harp and hoped to become a professional harpist.

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Exercise—what are our motives?

Tiffany Panfili

I had to replace those materialistic motives and false beliefs that I had held on to for so long with what God, Spirit, knows to be true about me as His purely spiritual reflection or expression.

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From obsessive hatred to a healing love

José de Dios Mata

My neighbor confessed that he was involved in trafficking young women from other countries, without their knowledge or consent, to work in prostitution clubs. After this incident, I couldn’t stop the thoughts of anger and resentment toward him.

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When I felt excluded

Beatrice Fogarty

After transferring back to her old high school, this teen felt excluded. Things didn’t change instantly, but praying the way she’d learned in Christian Science Sunday School brought this author the insights she needed to feel peace and find a sense of belonging.

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How I prayed when I fell off my bike

Max

I remembered what I’d learned in Christian Science Sunday School about how God is always with me and caring for me.

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God’s gift of grace

Gloria Preston

It was God’s grace that healed me and made my simple prayer light up a more spiritual love in me. I was instantly freed of hatred, and I felt filled with a sense of unity with all that is good.

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Inner storms can be stilled

Margaret Jane Seymour

I could refuse to let fearful suggestions stir up my thinking. Instead, I could listen for, and yield to, the reassuring messages that God is always imparting.

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Learning from “the waters of Meribah”

Consuela Allen Sand

Only as we challenge dead-end thinking and its bitter waters can we get our lives on track and experience progress, health, and happiness.

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Loving our neighbor even when we’ve been wronged

Jeff Peake

When our actions are based on Jesus’ teachings, we can know that we are on the right path.