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One day some years ago , when I was serving as an attendant at a Christian Science Reading Room, the librarian informed the staff of a problem with our daily deliveries of The Christian Science Monitor. When she arrived at the Reading Room in the mornings, our copies of the Monitor were often missing, though she was assured by our delivery service that they had been delivered to our doorstep.

When a loved one passed away, I felt a sense of separation and aloneness. Endeavoring to pray and overcome the grief, I recalled an earlier experience I’d had during one of my daily walks that took me past several blocks of art galleries.

Corruption can feel like a problem that’s out of our hands and it’s unfixable. The good news is that there is something we can do about it and it begins with our prayers.

When I was a child, attending Sunday School was an important part of my life especially on Easter Sunday. The flowers were springing up, and there was a sense of renewal all over.

 One recent day , as I considered all the healings I’ve experienced and witnessed through the practice of Christian Science, I noticed quite vividly a common denominator to them all. Each and every case, no matter what the trouble seemed to be, was primarily the result of believing the lie that man could be separated from God’s love.

 Do you find yourself deeply inspired by the truth of being—the eternal harmony of God and His creation—yet not as successful as you want to be, or need to be, when it comes to rejecting material evidence to the contrary?  The Scriptures tell us, “God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good” ( Genesis 1:31 ). Therefore, in an absolute sense, whatever is not Godlike and good, whatever is not spiritual and perfect, is not real.

No matter the threat, no matter where in the world, God is a present help.

 Today, we place so many demands on ourselves—working for more productivity at our jobs, continuing education, parents managing their children’s myriad activities—all that along with daily activity. When asked to take on a role or task for church, however, the hesitancy to take on another commitment sometimes sneaks in.

 It was the first snow of that winter, and I headed out of my hotel for an early morning run. This was decades ago, but I still remember it vividly—the ground was covered with a thin blanket of white and everything seemed extra quiet.

The 18th-century English poet Alexander Pope wrote, “Order is heaven’s first law,” an often-quoted line that Mary Baker Eddy refers to as “so eternally true, so axiomatic, that it has become a truism; and its wisdom is as obvious in religion and scholarship as in astronomy or mathematics” ( Retrospection and Introspection, p. 87 ).