Recently, I traveled out of town with friends for dinner and to hear an orchestra concert. Not long after the concert began, I started feeling ill. I prayed silently for myself but wasn’t able to break through to inspiration. Tickets to the event had been the family’s Christmas gift to me, and I didn’t want to interrupt what had been for all of us a long-anticipated evening. However, about two-thirds of the way through the concert, I found it necessary to leave the auditorium, and I asked one of my friends to accompany me.
The situation rapidly worsened, and the symptoms were indicative of food poisoning. I expressed this concern to my friend, who is a fellow Christian Science practitioner, and she gladly consented to support me in prayer.
When the concert ended, I made my way to my friends’ car with their help. However, we had only driven a few blocks when I needed to stop at the first available opportunity, which was a coffee shop. While there, I contacted another friend, also a Christian Science practitioner, and asked her to pray for me. (My on-site practitioner friend was driving as well as maintaining conversation with her husband and daughter, so she felt she was no longer able to devote full prayerful attention to the situation.)
