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Why stop at physical healing? Mrs. Eddy yearned for her followers not only to experience spiritual healing of physical ills, but to respond to the impulse to inquire into the great cause that produces the healing, and, like her, to follow these impressions of truth to discover a whole new reality.

Dominion is woven into the very fabric of our being. This author experiences freedom from fear when she and her two young children take a road trip to find a new home. 

The author is asked by her branch Church of Christ, Scientist, to help hold church services in a mental institution. Her prayers led her to strive to be a transparency and let God’s love shine through—to let nothing interfere with the good God had for everyone. 

Despite a bunch of returned article submissions, this author realized something that gave her hope and a sense of serving the Cause of Christian Science. The act of writing kept her prayerfully alert to the world’s needs, and in effect helped meet those needs by uplifting and healing her thought first. 

One day when I was in high school, I was protected from being caught up in a school riot. My mother was a Christian Scientist, and she prayed for my sisters and me every day.

Every bit of Science  and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy has infinite depths of inspiration and practical application, but it is always a delight to me when something that I have understood and loved at one level takes on fresh meaning, and powerful inspiration is breathed into my healing work. Countless spiritual lessons can be learned from how we interpret the world around us.

In the 1920s, my parents were vacationing with my two sisters and me in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York. They were looking for a place to spend the night and saw a sign for a guesthouse, where they decided to stay.

A Christian Scientist who was on the bullet train to Kyoto, Japan, shares how she prayed when she lost sight of her sister. She learns that God’s help is faster than a bullet train. 

An avid pickleball player shares how she prayed after she sees an opponent experience an injury on the court. 

Entering the “sanctuary of Spirit” before studying the Christian Science Bible Lesson, we shut out distractions and pressures and open our hearts to God’s healing messages of Truth and Love. Our time with the Lesson is holy.