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This theater camp camper wasn’t feeling great after a week of practicing and performing in the heat. But a single hymn from the Christian Science Hymnal turned everything around for her.
This author was a pro at criticizing … until she realized it wasn’t actually making her feel all that great. Prayer gave her new insights about God and herself that helped her get to the root of the criticisms—and to stop them.

This relationship

When this human experience
   seems difficult, 
there is a relationship needed
   more than any other. 
It only …
Stillness, I’ve learned, is not passive; it is active trust in God’s omnipotence. 
The main lesson I have taken from these situations is to humbly know who is really solving all problems.

Right reasoning

No turning sphere
   or setting sun 
dimmed the idea
   that divine light
      is always on …

God’s great light

Dear Father and Mother
   God, I pray,
let not my thoughts
   or desires stray …
Getting to know God better—and getting to know ourselves better as God’s spiritual image—helps us be more receptive to “God’s unerring direction.” This certainly brought out a harmonious and permanent freedom from addiction for my friend.
Would doubt and fear get in the way of this epic summer experience? This teen’s prayers ensured they didn’t.
It was the day of her piano performance—in front of a judge!—and this teen felt full of nerves . . . until an unexpected message from God shifted her whole mindset. 

No darkened space

The light of God’s day
   holds no extra room
   where one can visit night.
      And searching will not find
      a single darkened space
      in God’s house …

What really is

Everyone is entitled to God—
to know God. 
And I know that I am now …