Watching the Summit

by Kevin Henneberger

I had the opportunity to participate in the CSO Summit over Labor Day, but as a TMC Youth intern, I was helping prepare for the event beforehand. And I found the days leading up to it incredibly helpful. Time was running out and the work was piling up, so we decided to start a prayer watch-each team member took a half an hour a day to pray specifically for the upcoming Summit. This was the first time that I’d actively prayed with other people, for an extended period of time, for one specific cause.

Since praying for more than five minutes was new to me, it was easy to pray about a lot of different things. In my half hour session, I included every aspect of the Summit I could think of-I prayed for the participants, the food, the transportation, the lecturers and speakers, the schedule, safety on the waterslide, and more. It left me feeling so excited and ready for it to start. The difficult preparation naturally started falling into place, too. It was so amazing to see Science working-with eight people praying (over four hours per day), how could I expect anything else?

Another bonus of the watch came during the Summit. We were finishing up some last minute work. At the same time, I was spending time with arriving participants, two of whom were my sisters who I hadn’t seen for a few months. And then my girlfriend surprised me by showing up, and it was my birthday-all good things, but somehow I was feeling overwhelmed and irritable.

Our team practitioner said one thing to me that healed those feelings, “we’ve already prayed for this.” It was so simple…and comforting to realize that all of those hours of prayer had already taken care of me and whatever situation I was in. My irritation left immediately, and I went on to enjoy the weekend.

I know that the TMC Youth team wasn’t the only group of people praying. Think of all the collective prayers of the speakers, lecturers, the Cedars’ staff, and the participant! The result? A quiet peace at this year’s Summit-an incredible aura that was an effect of so much prayer. This event really changed my understanding of Science-how easy and effective it is-and I’m definitely going to start watching more of what I do.

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