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When you’re facing a tough moral decision, how can you know if you’re really headed in the right direction? One author shares, from her own experience, how she’s found spiritual sense to be a reliable, and unerring, guide.
Christian Science doesn’t ask us to ignore challenges.
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 - July–December 2020
How can I find a feeling of purpose?
My purpose was already divinely established, and with that purpose came the avenues to express it.
How can we pray in a way that’s more effortless, and more effective? A day of sailing helped this author find answers to that question, and gave new momentum to her prayers.
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.
Lying on her bed in a state of despair, this author wanted comfort. What she got was so much more.
If you feel like you haven’t had a healing—or that you don’t know how to have one—this author has some good news for you: Healing is simply a change in thought. How can you make that thought-shift? Read on.
Overwhelmed by the academics in her new school, this author prayed for a solution. The specific—and unexpected—divine guidance that followed not only helped her succeed on a difficult exam, but it also supported her in facing down the temptation to cheat.
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 Special 2021 Teens' Collection
Peak performance
The more I understood that my ability comes from God—and always has—the easier it was to let go of the belief that I’d somehow lost my skill.
From A Collection for Teens - January–June 2024
Quitting the complaining committee
I was relying on complaints and drama to sustain me and help me make connections rather than understanding that God leads and sustains me.
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.
What do you do if you think your friend is mad at you? Be a good friend, not by running around trying to make things better, but—surprise—by loving God first.
When an ankle injury threatened to keep this teen home on Halloween night, she realized she could be healed just as quickly and surely as if Christ Jesus had been there. And she was.
With only a few days to learn a leading role, this actress discovered that leaning on God has practical effects. She shares more about just what it means to lean on the Divine in this Q&A.
When this author found judgmental thoughts creeping in and taking over, she realized she needed a new measuring stick. She found one in this Bible verse: “judge righteous judgment.”
After a friend from high school committed suicide, this author felt impelled to pray more consistently for anyone, anywhere who might be feeling hopeless.
For this author, a black belt test in tae kwon do became a turning point in her understanding and practice of Christian Science.
