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Originally appeared online in the teen series Trending -  September 12, 2023

I had an important paper due in five days, and I hadn’t started it. In fact, I didn’t even have a topic. 

My professor had handed out a list of topic choices, but all of the topics seemed obscure or dull. I couldn’t make myself choose any of them. 

As zero hour approached, I knew it was time to do something I should have done earlier—something I’d done many times as a student of Christian Science. In prayer, I turned to God, infinite intelligence, for help.  

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