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A long-awaited school rafting trip turned scary when problems broke out among the group. With a Class IV rapid up ahead, this author knew what she had to do: pray.
Bogged down by everything going on in your life, or in the world, and feeling like you have no time to pray about it? Try a new approach: Instead of waiting to pray later, use each moment to exchange suggestions of fear or worry for what God is telling you instead.
Share your healing experience
Hey, teens! Have a healing to share? Check out the Teens Writer’s Corner to learn how.
From A Collection for Teens - January–June 2022
When God spoke to me
I recognized that the thought to bring my knees to my chin had been an “angel message” from God.
What can you do when relationships never seem to work out the way you want them to? This author shares his prayers about that question and how a shift to a more God-centric perspective blessed all his relationships—romantic and otherwise.
From the latest Sentinel
Struggling to write a college essay?
Ashley Packard
If you’re having a hard time with your college essays, this author shares how turning to God transformed the writing process for her.
When a problem comes along, do you ask what you’re doing wrong or wonder why something bad is happening? This author did until she got a completely new perspective on how to deal with challenges.
When you pray, is it about something specific? Do you spend most of your time asking God for things? This author offers a challenge: Pray without an agenda. Each day. Why? Read on.
When you’re faced with a problem, do you “use” Christian Science to address it? This author explains how healing happens more readily when we understand that we aren’t “using” Christian Science to fix something.
Share your healing experience
Hey, teens! Have a healing to share? Check out the Teens Writer’s Corner to learn how.
Share your healing experience
Hey, teens! Have a healing to share? Check out the Teens Writer’s Corner to learn how.
From A Collection for Teens - January–June 2022
When God spoke to me
I recognized that the thought to bring my knees to my chin had been an “angel message” from God.
From A Collection for Teens - January–June 2020
Feeling tired?
Tiredness can’t affect something spiritual, so it can’t affect me, since I’m spiritual.
From the latest Sentinel
Struggling to write a college essay?
Ashley Packard
If you’re having a hard time with your college essays, this author shares how turning to God transformed the writing process for her.
Who do you turn to when you have a problem? Your friends? Your parents? How about God? Read about how one author’s life changed in a major way when she started turning to God first.
When it seems like there’s so much going wrong in the world, is there anything we can do to help? There is. And it begins with letting the light of Christ shine in our own “dark places.”
Stumped by a project, this author had a breakthrough when she realized the idea she needed was already there. All she had to do was pay attention and trust God, divine Mind, to lead the way.
It seemed like there was no solution. She hadn’t gotten any sleep and wouldn’t be able to get much more for a couple days. Was there a spiritual solution to her fatigue? This author discovered: Yes!
This author found herself looking ahead to a project with stress and dread. But two simple steps shifted her perspective and brought her a conviction of the presence of God’s goodness—and speedy success.
Struggling to find friends and a feeling of belonging at her new school, this author found an answer to her problems by getting a new perspective—a spiritual perspective.
