Challenges. We all have them. Sometimes they're small challenges, like a noisy neighbor or an anxious feeling that won't go away. Sometimes they're much larger ones, like those faced by a woman who, along with many other Christian Scientists, had her practice of religion officially prohibited for nearly four decades. Little did this woman realize back in the early 1950s, when she slipped quietly across the border between East and West Germany at night, how long it would be before she could attend her own church again. Nor did she realize the meeting she had the following days with Christian Scientists would play a role in helping her later deal with grief over the death of her husband.
This woman, and several others, have written in this issue about how they've found, through prayer, solutions to a variety of challenges in their lives. You can read about them in the section called "Reports of healing."
When we pray about our challenges as these people did, we discover we're never helpless or hopeless. We can, as one article in this issue explains, "handle" evil through realizing the all-power of God, good. Divine goodness is really the law of our life—a law working for us, never against us. A law we can turn to at any moment for instant help. And God's goodness can't slip out of our grasp. It isn't, as another article points out, "too good to last." It's as eternal as God is.
