I’ve been attending Christian Science Sunday School since I was four years old, and I’m grateful to say that Christian Science has brought all kinds of healing in my life. I currently attend a boarding high school in the United States, but I live with my mother and my two cats near Frankfurt, Germany.

About a year and a half ago, when I was in the ninth grade at another school, all my classmates and I were required to participate in a three-week internship with a company or a business. I applied to several companies, but they all turned my applications down. I was feeling really disappointed because I worked hard at school and thought I had strong applications. All my friends had already been accepted to positions within their first or second application.

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By autumn break, every student was supposed to have found a position. I was the only student in my class without one. If you couldn’t find a position, our school would provide alternative positions, but those positions mostly seemed inappropriate for students—they were in bakeries, butchers’ shops, and places like that. All my friends had gotten internships that related to our studies in math, science, and writing.

The situation seemed really unfair to me, and I was kind of upset. I had almost given up. One day in class, my teacher asked who had already found a position, and everybody except for me raised their hands. I told her that I had written about 20 applications, but I don’t think she really believed me. 

When I visited my grandma during the holidays, she suggested that we pray and ask a Christian Science practitioner for help. So I wrote an e-mail to a practitioner explaining the situation. A few hours later, he answered my e-mail and promised to pray with me.

My grandma and I also prayed on our own. She told me that in God’s eyes, we are all equal and no one is privileged. As Mary Baker Eddy wrote in Science and Health, “Love is impartial and universal in its adaptation and bestowals” (p. 13). Together, we read a lot from the Bible and Science and Health about how all God’s children are created equally, given unlimited access to God’s love and care. Thinking about that idea encouraged me.

I especially liked a few of the quotes that we read together. This one from Isaiah stood out to me: “I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways” (45:13). I was really looking forward to my internship, because I hoped to spend those three weeks with an interesting company, learning a lot about working life. This quote assured me that I could listen for God’s direction, since He was directing my path.

A few days before, I had asked the father of a friend if he could try to find a position for me in the company he works in. He had said that it most likely wouldn’t work, but he promised to try to find something for me. Just a few hours after I started praying with my grandmother, this man called and said that he had found a position in his company for me!

I was assured that I could listen for God's direction, since He was directing my path.

The internship was in a laboratory in the quality check department of the company. We did a lot of interesting experiments, and I learned a lot about biology, which gave me an advantage in my biology lessons in school. The company wasn’t far from where we live, and I loved riding my bike there every morning. Many of my friends came home late at night, sometimes feeling tired, but I came home in the early afternoon and had some free time. After a few days, I was treated like an assistant in the company, and I was actually able to help the employees, not only observe. All of my co-workers were really nice, and I had a great time there. At the end of the internship, I had to write a ten-page report on the experience, and I got an A on the paper.

This awesome experience showed me that with God nothing is impossible. He provides the right position for all of His children. As the Bible says, “I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee” (Job 42:2). It was wonderful to see that I can apply Christian Science to heal any problem in my life, even academic situations like this. I’m also grateful for the support of my grandma because she has such a great background in Christian Science prayer and is always willing to help me, to answer my questions, and to teach me more about Christian Science.

This experience definitely strengthened my trust in God’s love and protection!

Helga Janesch

I am Malvin’s grandmother. When I heard that he was the only pupil in his class who had not found a traineeship, I was first shocked and angry. I felt the situation was quite unjust because Malvin is a very good student. But I soon realized that anger doesn’t heal anything and turned to God in prayer. I remembered that Mary Baker Eddy wrote in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, “Love is impartial and universal in its adaptation and bestowals.”

I should mention here that all the pupils had to send a photo together with their application. My grandson looked a bit different from all his classmates: he is half African and, at the time, had a rather unusual hair style. I wondered if people were exhibiting prejudice when they were seeing his photo. But this statement that “Love is impartial and universal” makes it so clear that God loves all His children equally, no matter what color their skin is or what their hair looks like.

I shared these ideas with Malvin, and we rejoiced in the fact that we are all loved and cared for by our heavenly Father-Mother God. And I was most grateful to hear of the interesting internship that he received after our prayers together. We are most grateful that Christian Science can be applied to any problem.