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How we can pray to see the powerlessness of the “Herod-thought”—the mental resistance to God’s law of peace and harmony.

One of the most spiritual statements I have ever heard is “God is All. ” Although I found this difficult to understand at first, I clung tightly to the idea until I began to gain its full meaning.

Every Christmas, I like to take my Bible and read about the arrival of the baby Jesus. I rejoice with the angels as they announce our Savior’s birth to the shepherds.

The physical universe is really a false concept in human consciousness. Grasping this, and seeing the universe as God’s entirely spiritual creation, gives us dominion.

Christ Jesus is understood to be the fulfillment of biblical prophecies such as Isaiah’s foretelling of “a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief” ( Isaiah 53:3 ). But recently when I saw a painting of Jesus smiling and radiating with joy, I was immediately drawn to that image of our dear Master and Savior.

On November 20 and 21, 1898, Mary Baker Eddy taught her last Normal class. During that instruction, she asked each class member a pointed question: “If you were called to some one who was apparently dying, what would you do?”  Lida Stocking Stone was in attendance, listening as each student answered earnestly—but technically.

The gift of spiritual sense emanates from God, Soul, and enables us to discern God and His spiritual creation. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy defines it as “a conscious, constant capacity to understand God” ( p.

When a rowdy group of teenage boys trespass repeatedly on his property, this author knows he needs to get to work to see them as God’s children. 

What God reports is always accurate, and pure and true messages constantly flow to us, since we are His children. 

Home is a spiritual idea from God, so it is always part of our experience. Praying with this thought, the author was able to sell her home, which met the buyers’ needs, and move into a new home that met her needs.