Christian Science Sentinel

Gratitude always has a healing role to play in our lives, even when we face tough times. It's a powerful quality that brings immense blessings when used liberally.

If I ever had a time in my life when I needed to pray, it was when I became aware that our daughter was experimenting with drugs. Gradually, I felt assured I couldn’t fail as a mom. Rather, I could count on God, who was our daughter’s Father-Mother, the only creator, and the only genuine power of the universe, to lovingly help us recognize solutions.

My friend had spread rumors about me and told everyone why they shouldn’t be my friend. When I went back to school, I remembered that God’s love was protecting me and that I could let it lead the way to healing and new friends. And God's love did just that.

I realized that the water was entering my side of the car. As it reached my knees, I shouted, “God, we need help, and we need it now!”—fully expecting that God would answer our need. 

God’s child never wants for anything because, as a complete spiritual idea, each one of us already includes all good. I proved this when I trusted God about finding a job and a place to live.

This testimony is given with the hope that some one who reads it may thereby gain courage to stand firm in God's strength in time of need, for there is no power apart from God.

y heart is so full of gratitude for the many blessings which Christian Science has brought into my life, that I cannot keep my story of God’s love from where it might reach and possibly help others.

Christian Science teaches that we can challenge the limiting notion of an expected decline of strength and vigor. So when I started experiencing knee pain that made it hard to hike, I knew I could have a complete healing through prayer.

I was in the field behind our house digging out invasive vegetation. Suddenly I started feeling stings all over my body. I had dug into a bees nest. Walking back to the house, while swatting the bees and feeling the stinging increase, I felt a spiritual conviction that I had gained the previous day.

Prayer to heal tension and strife with family members also healed a UTI. Peace within the family was restored and there were no more UTI symptoms.