We've learned through Unity principles, classes and Lawrence's sermons that an affective way to pray is to thank God as though what we are praying for has al-ready come to pass. Most of the time I'm pretty good at doing this. My daughter has MS so I thank God for all the research going on now, the contributions, the crea-tive thinking by scientists, and prayers by friends and Silent Unity.

I read the newspaper every morning and thank God when I see new information about stem cell research or the very promising thing, statins. I thank God for Andrea's complete cure as well as the complete cure of all other afflicted people on the planet. That's on the good days.

Then there are the days when she has trouble walking or feels so very fatigued and so I cry, I pray, I ask, I plead, I beg for a cure. And when I’m really feeling desperate, I demand. Not a pretty sight!

Several months ago in church during the meditation, I began to cry and beg for Andrea's healing. Something just said to me, "Noreen, God knows what you're praying for. Just hold her in your heart and just be with it."

I took a deep breath and just let the calm feeling come over me. I continued to sit calmly through the Lord's Prayer and the special music, which was classical guitar. I have to say I was feeling better.

After the service as I was walk-ing out, Ann Clark came walking toward me. She said she was sitting about three rows behind me and when she looked up during the guitar music, she saw a brilliant, white light all around me. She said it was so intense, she had to look away. When she looked back, it was gone. When she told me what she had seen, I grabbed her and hugged her and thanked her for being open to seeing the light and also for coming to tell me about what she had seen.

What Ann was totally unaware of was that when I was a kid I was very ill, and my mom was standing in the kitchen praying, crying (probably begging) and the kitchen filled with this most intense white light... such a brilliant light that she couldn't look into it. A calm feeling came over her and she knew from that moment on that I would be all right, even though I was sick for several years after that.

And so, for about two months before Ann saw the light in church, I had been praying for that same sign from God... the bright light like my mom had seen... so I would know my daughter was going to be all right. And Ann had been my angel and my eyes. Thank you so much, Ann.

We just have to remember that the signs are all around us whether we can see them or not. The important thing, I guess, is to keep those prayers coming! They are being answered. I would like to thank our wonderful Prayer Team and thank all the people who keep Silent Unity going strong. And thanks, God, for the miracles, even if we sometimes think we have to beg for them!

— Noreen McGregor