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As profound as an Independence Day is for people in many countries around the globe—as is celebrated in the United States on July 4—the freedom explored in this issue can permeate every aspect of one’s being and life. 

A testimony of the healing of a growth sums up the freedom, joy, and inspiration illustrated in this month’s issue: “As I left the appointment [with a Christian Science practitioner] and was heading to my car, a wonderful sense of freedom and joy overwhelmed me. I literally did a little skip on the sidewalk and I recall saying to myself, ‘I actually think this healing is possible!’ ” And after more consecrated prayer, and as her thought “changed from a material standpoint to a spiritual one,” within two weeks, the growth was healed (see Joyce G. Peterson, “Growth dissolved”). 

Other authors found freedom from long-standing scars and a blockage, back pain, and headaches. In the lead article, “Why prayer? Freedom.” by Josh Niles, he writes about a friend who wanted not only freedom from a dental problem but also, further, mental freedom from the notion that life is in and of matter. Through prayer, she found both. 

An author wrote about realizing the profound and liberating effect of putting into practice “the truth of God as the only cause and creator” in small matters as well as larger ones (Barbara Cook Spencer, “ ‘The day of small things’ ”). And the practical and freeing effect of first-in-the-morning prayer is brought out in “Waking up to prayer!” by Diane Dailey. 

“What divine Mind is knowing, seeing, and doing is what you and I, as His expression, are knowing, seeing, and doing,” Jan Keeler Vincent writes in “Understanding the coincidence between God and man.” Knowing this looses our thought from material limitations.  

In “The perfect standard: Divine consciousness” by Lynne Young, we read, “It may seem like a challenge at times to realize that everything is a state of thought, but what freedom it brings.” Finally, in the editorial, Tony Lobl writes, “[The Christ-spirit] inspires loving forgiveness even in the face of hatred and injustice.” Later, Tony writes that “such Spirit-based forgiveness doesn’t ignore or excuse the crime, but frees us to turn from the evidence of the crime to the deeper, divine reality that God sees and knows” (“A Christly response to religious persecution”).

So, enjoy diving into this month’s Journal, and let’s welcome a spiritually based Independence Day every day!  

Susan Kerr
Staff Editor