Your Insights
The other night I had a terrible dream. It was one of those dreams that seem so real it’s hard to distinguish it from reality.
A number of years ago my wife and I joined two other couples one Saturday to go to Los Angeles for a lecture and lunch. Like most friends we talked and laughed— thoroughly enjoying each other’s company.
There I was in my chair, reading the Christian Science Bible Lesson for that week, when I caught myself saying, “A ziggurat? What does this Bible story have to do with anything I’m dealing with?” Prior to this particular day, I had found myself sometimes just reading the Lesson—but not praying it and really living it. Yet, as this week started, I promised myself I would not move past a section of the Lesson until I could glimpse some new concept from what I was reading that would help and heal, and bring me to a deeper, more spiritual level of thinking.
The time of harvest, reaping the rewards of mercy, kindness, the reign and rain of righteousness, is at hand. Let it embrace you, penetrate you, permeate your every thought, need, and circumstance.
The dance was only a few days away, and things weren’t looking good. I was putting on the eighth grade dance for the middle school where I work, and with so many details still not coming together, I was feeling burdened.
God knows our need, and He has shown me this on many occasions. One evening, I searched everywhere in my home for something I needed in my work.
Last Christmas, while looking at a nativity scene, I was profoundly moved by the picture before me. On one side of the display were shepherds bowing to the baby Jesus, and on the other side were kings honoring him, as well.
One day as I was praying for church, I began to appreciate just how vital the Wednesday testimony meetings are in Christian Science churches. I turned to Revelation 12, verses 10 and 11 : “And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
Several years ago, I made an annual trek to a Christian Science nursing facility in California to prune their 250 rose bushes. That particular year, the weather was colder and wetter than usual.