In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

First, I prayed

Read about the inspiring exchange that took place between two women who were separated by an ocean, on the day of a tragic event in the Middle East.
One of the writer's earliest listening-to-God" attempts turned out to be a mile-marker for life.

Keep PRAYING 

Beyond physical relief and healing, persistent prayer offers the valuable benefit of knowing better who God is—and who you are.
Three helpful "power words" to guide your prayers: listen, let, and launch.
As a boy, I sometimes sailed boats off the white, palm-fringed beaches of Mozambique.
I'm one of the coaches on my children's swim team.

Seeing the 'face of God'

As the opening credits roll on the Friday night CBS series Joan of Arcadia, the theme song, "One of Us," plays in the background, posing provocative questions about God.
A woman's tendency to feel constant gloom, heaviness, and concern about hereditary depression ends with the spiritual understanding that "life is for enjoying."
The best alternative to acute or chronic worry is prayer, which stops it in its tracks.

I was angry at God

Angry at God? At first she thought she was furious at Him. That is, until she realized that meant being angry at good itself— the very good she yearned for.
When divorce put everything in his life on the line, the writer was impelled to learn an important lesson: The nature of your problems isn't as important as the way in which you deal with them.
Even when the financial picture is bleak, prayer offers a way out of debt and into God's blessings.