Stress-free—right now

Are you counting down? Most teens I know, at least here in the United States, are. Counting down the days until “I can stop feeling stressed,” as one of my friends put it. “Only one essay, one project, and five finals to go.”

That’s a pretty common refrain no matter where you are in the school year—that stress goes away only after you’ve handed in all your papers and taken all your tests. But what if you could feel that release from stress even before you take the test?

That requires looking at things from a whole different perspective. Just ask my friend Kaily—a Christian Scientist who’s just finishing up her senior year in high school. What she’s learned about God and her relation to Him brought a pretty dramatic shift in her approach to stressful school situations. Here’s her story in her own words:

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