Soccer season wasn’t starting out the way this varsity player had hoped. Could she pray about her performance? Or what was her real goal?
This author appreciated the ideas she was learning in Christian Science Sunday School, but she wasn’t convinced they all applied to her … until she had a healing that proved otherwise.
It all came down to the final kick of the game. But instead of giving in to pressure, this soccer player knew that she could pray.
In dark moments, when we feel impossibly stuck, is there anything that can move us forward? As this author learned, even the smallest amount of faith can do that.
“I like reading other kids’ testimonies because it gives me proof that healings through prayer are possible and that they happen every day, even to kids like me.”
Facing a dangerous situation at school, this author leaned on what she’d learned about God from attending Christian Science Sunday School. The healing that followed included not just her, but the potential perpetrator, too.
If you’re struggling to get off your phone, this author has some spiritual insights—gained from her own prayers about how to stop scrolling—that can help.
Even though her dad was a Christian Scientist, it wasn’t until this college student needed answers to life’s big questions that the message came to pick up Science and Health for herself.
“As I make my understanding of God bigger by learning more about Him—and then hold tightly to this bigger and bigger sense of God—it lifts me up, and I feel happy.”
Traumatic family events complicated this author’s relationship with her stepmother. Loving her seemed impossible. But was it?
“A few of the names I have found are Mind, Father-Mother, Great God, and Lord God Almighty.”
This author felt like she had every right to be mad at her friend. But, she discovered, the anger and hurt couldn’t stick—not in the presence of divine Love.