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TeenConnect: Your Healings
While she was friendly with many of the students at her school, this teen yearned for a friend group of her own. When she began to pray about friendship, she not only ended up finding “her people,” but she got something even more profound: a deeper and more solid understanding of God’s love.
TeenConnect: Your Healings
It was an important math test, and this student was stumped. Then her professor unexpectedly taught her a lesson in what intelligence really looks like, and she learned how listening to God plays a key role in the way we express that quality.
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After feeling jealous about others’ relationships—a sentiment that always got worse around Valentine’s Day—this author decided to turn to Science and Health for help . . . and found some unexpected answers.
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It’s an all-too-familiar feeling for many teenagers right now—the darkness of burnout, anxiety, hopelessness. But there is help. This author shares specifics about the prayer that lifted her, and can lift you, into the light.
TeenConnect: Your Healings
This healing gave me a lot more confidence in my ability to pray for myself.
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Cut off from friends and family during the pandemic, this teen found herself slipping into constant unhappiness with no clear way out. But was her happiness really at the mercy of her circumstances? A conversation with her mom brought new spiritual insights.
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When she and her friends were relentlessly bullied, they joined together—not to retaliate, but to pray—with powerful results.
TeenConnect: Q&A
You probably know the feeling. You get your day started with prayer, but then it seems like the inspiration fades the moment “real life” begins. Is there any way to feel that prayerful “oomph” all day long?
TeenConnect: Your Healings
When an expensive item was damaged at the warehouse where this teen worked, her boss asked her to cover for him by writing a dishonest email. What was she supposed to do? Turning to prayer led her to an unexpected solution.
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In prayer, I addressed the competitive feelings that had felt like a wedge between us.