TeenConnect: Your Healings
February 7, 2023
No more menstrual cramps
I was getting ready to leave for a trip with my mom to visit a college when I started experiencing painful menstrual cramps. My period had started the day before, but normally I never get cramps, which is why I was so surprised by the pain. Because I’ve grown up going to Christian Science Sunday School, I’m usually pretty quick to pray about things that need resolution. But this time I was too focused on the discomfort to think about praying. My mom asked me what was wrong and then suggested I call a Christian Science practitioner to pray with me.
As the practitioner and I spoke on the phone, the pain eased up a lot. I’d been scared that the cramps would ruin my day and the trip, but these fears went away as I listened to what she was saying. She shared a hymn for me to think about, which happens to be one of my favorites. It’s Hymn 148 in the Christian Science Hymnal and begins, “In heavenly Love abiding, / No change my heart shall fear.” Another line that I love says this: “My Shepherd is beside me, / And nothing can I lack” (Anna L. Waring).
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I was too focused on the discomfort to think about praying.
I realized that I couldn’t be lacking in health or wholeness, since God is always with me and caring for me as omnipresent Love. I’d learned in Sunday School that our relation to divine Love means that God loves us and maintains us and that as the expression of Love we always embody God’s qualities, like wholeness and joy.
I continued praying with this hymn as we left for our trip. I thought about each line of the hymn and how the ideas apply to me. During the drive, the pain returned, so I texted the practitioner again, and she provided more ideas for me to think about. One of my favorite ideas was that I’m a child of God, so I can never be separated from God, Love. And because I can’t be separated from God, I can never be separated from harmony and spiritual perfection. As I was thinking about these ideas, I started to feel peaceful, and I ended up falling asleep.
I realized that I couldn’t be lacking in health or wholeness, since God is always with me and caring for me as omnipresent Love.
When I woke up, the pain was completely gone, and I knew I had been healed. My mom and I had a wonderful trip, and I enjoyed visiting the college feeling completely like myself.
I’m so grateful that I haven’t had to deal with menstrual cramps again.