How can I get along with my sister?
For a long time, I struggled to get along with one of my sisters. I felt like she was purposefully trying to annoy me and it seemed like my parents were always taking her side. It started to get really frustrating. I felt like I wasn’t being heard, my parents were being unjust, and I was mad at myself for not finding a way to resolve the issue.
It wasn’t until I went to Christian Science Sunday School one Sunday that I realized that I could pray about what was going on—and that prayer could actually help me solve this problem. My Sunday School teacher usually asks our class if we have any questions, so that Sunday I asked if she could share some ideas that could help me pray about the situation with my sister.
My teacher reminded me of a story from the Bible about two brothers, Jacob and Esau. Jacob stole Esau’s birthright, and Esau was mad enough to kill him. But when the brothers met years later, Esau didn’t attack Jacob as Jacob had feared. Instead, they were able to reconcile. The reconciliation happened because God brought about a change of character in Jacob and a change of heart in Esau (see Genesis 25–33).
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