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Trusting God when decisions feel beyond our control

When trust goes beyond personal opinion to acknowledging God, ways open up for progress.
This student couldn’t wait for the end of the school year … until he was hit with a sore throat. Read on to find out how prayer helped turn things around.
We can prevent the onset of a fear that anything besides God is present or has power.
When there was no seat available for him to take an important exam, this teen didn’t get upset or give up. Instead, he relied on what he’d learned in the Christian Science Sunday School to pray about the situation—with quick results.
Many have found consecrated prayer and spiritual reasoning powerful enough to break compulsion’s hold
After she spent sophomore year feeling overwhelmed, this high school student was ready for a change. Learning more about God as her source helped her think differently about her schoolwork and other demands and propelled her into her junior year feeling calmer and closer to God.

What good is revenge?

The God that is all-loving redeems humanity from its worst impulses.
An injury during a football game had this player wondering if he’d be able to join his team for its upcoming district match. But as he prayed, he gained a new conviction that he could be healed—without delay.
Dear Readers,
After procrastinating on a major project, this high school student had only one night to finish it, and everything seemed to be going wrong. That’s when she learned a spiritual lesson that not only helped her with her project but also changed her attitude about procrastination.
As Editor of the international newspaper The Christian Science Monitor, I sometimes feel I would like to illustrate Monitor stories like a comic book.
Though she was on fire to share Christian Science and its healing effects on her life, this university student was met with skepticism—sometimes even hostility—from people who seemed to have no interest in God or religion. Prayer helped her find both a different perspective on sharing and a new way to share.