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My initial encounter with Christian Science was in prison, where I went to a Christian Science church service just to get out of my cell. At the time I was serving a life sentence for a crime I had not committed, although I had engaged in other criminal activity from an early age.
Six years ago, a very special event in my life made me think more deeply about the topic of equal rights for women and men. This event was the birth of our first daughter.
As a teenager , I was working above a new display of soda pop at my job in a grocery store when some bottles exploded, sending shards of glass into my face and eyes. Soon after, I sat alone in a hospital emergency room waiting for my mother to arrive to authorize medical treatment because I was a minor.
I sat alone at one point, praying something like, “Wow, I honestly thought I’d do okay at this parenting thing, but God, I feel like I am messing up and I really, really need Your guidance right now to help these kids. ” In the Bible, the Apostle Paul said, “When I am weak, then am I strong” ( II Corinthians 12:10 ).
Mary Baker Eddy describes how she felt after being healed of life-threatening injuries from a fall on the ice: “Being was beautiful, its substance, cause, and currents were God and His idea. I had touched the hem of Christian Science” ( Retrospection and Introspection, p.
In an article titled “Follow the Science?” New York Times columnist David Leonhardt observes, “Many people have come to believe that expert opinion is a unitary, omniscient force. That’s the assumption behind the phrases ‘follow the science’ and ‘what the science says.
It was during my second or third consecutive reading of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, that I noticed the bottle of pills I had depended on to control nightmares had gone unused. I couldn’t remember the last time I had taken a pill, yet the nightmares had ended.
A deep dive into the Bible shows us that many individuals experienced God’s saving and protecting power in the face of extreme adversity. Starting with Genesis, we read of the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and other key figures such as Sarah and Joseph, who saw God’s laws of harmony overcome such afflictions as floods, loneliness, hunger, disease, infertility, greed, jealousy, rivalry, and abandonment.
in the dark of night with pain encroaching a light-filled whisper wings through the wall of shadows: “When we learn that error is not real, we shall be ready for progress. ” 1 the question beckons: am i ready? am i ready for progress? and suddenly i am awake: yes! i am ready! and so despite insistent clamorings i turn with focused fervency to give complete consent to God (in whom error could never be real) who i know has answered all things has never not been present has ordained my very being has consecrated every precious thing and suddenly without notice, impasse gives way and i am awash in All-ness and here, right here, divine Love carries on Her unhurried, unharried undaunted dawn of day divider 1 Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.
Is there a way that divisions in the world can be healed? Yes! In Genesis, chapter one, God creates light and divides it from the darkness. Then He creates a firmament to “divide the waters from the waters” ( verse 6 ).