Leticia Filizzola Dias, a junior at Principia College in Elsah, Illinois, who is studying mass communication, spoke with four young women, who are also students at Principia College and spent their summer in Boston. Leticia, a native of Brazil, was the summer 2012 intern for The Herald of Christian Science and had an uplifting discussion with them about relationships, career, and academics, and how to approach them through prayer. Below is a summary of their conversation.
Leticia: Have you ever prayed about relationships?
Jessica Jordão: What I came to realize through my prayers about relationships is that I’m complete. Sometimes people go into relationships trying to find themselves and someone who gives them what they don't have, without realizing that they are already complete. I’m not saying that “I don’t need anyone else.” But friends in general can bring out the best qualities in me and complement me in a higher sense than just one individual relationship can. By thinking that we can be happy only if we have someone else to make us complete, we lose sight of who we really are as God’s perfect and joyful idea.
Wendy Atieno: We should pray not only to see that we are complete, but also that we are an expression of divine Love. We don’t have to look for love because it is already within us, being naturally expressed.
