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College housing crunch yields to prayer
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
It was the third week of the semester and the university dorms were full. She urgently needed a place to live. She was sleeping on a friend’s floor. She’d been at desperation point when she noticed our sign on the door—the word Christian had impelled her to come in and ask for our help.
Those of us who attended the weekly testimony meeting at the Christian Science organization (CSO) on campus had heard about the dire lack of student housing that year. The problem was so big that it seemed the university was overwhelmed by it. Since none of us could share our housing—and it was obvious from her story that she’d done everything she could to find a place to live— the only option left was prayer.
Sometimes people don’t consider prayer a practical solution, but those of us in the CSO had proved the power of prayer in many aspects of our lives. I told her how, through prayer, I’d experienced God’s love in my life. I’d been healed of migraine headaches, many warts on my fingers, fear of exams. I’d even found a place to live. The Bible and Mary Baker Eddy’s book Science and Health had shown me that God had made me and everyone in His image and likeness. And I assured her that this wasn’t because I was especially favored by God. Everyone has the divine right to a happy, healthy, abundant life.
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