A new way of praying—that heals

I have always prayed for myself. In the Christian Science Sunday School I’ve learned that God loves me and is always with me, and so whenever I haven’t been feeling well or faced other challenges in my life, I’ve always known I could turn to God and be healed.

Once, in elementary school, I had a cold. I stayed home from school and tried praying about it. But I didn’t seem to be getting anywhere. I would ask God why I was sick and then ask Him to heal me as soon as possible—as though God had given me the sickness in the first place or knew anything about it. Because I was very young, I still didn’t totally understand how to pray correctly.

After telling my mom how I was addressing the issue, though, she suggested a different approach. She said that instead of thinking of myself as sick, as though the sickness was mine or something physical I had to get rid of, I could think of sickness as a belief or a false suggestion. Since it doesn’t come from God, that was all it could be—a lie that could never actually be true. She explained that as God’s loved child, who is completely spiritual, I could never actually be sick. The only thing going on, always, is God’s supreme and omnipotent love for me. 

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