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An incident in his woodshop brings instantaneous healing to the author.

A message of comfort and hope.

When this author prays for a new start, she receives an unexpected answer.

When strong feelings about an elected official caught her off guard, this Christian Scientist dedicated herself to praying more conscientiously for members of both political parties.

This morning there are 1. 9 million Google responses musing over a projected shortage in the health-care workforce.

At a recent Wednesday evening testimony meeting the account of Jesus’ healing of a man who we are told is “sick of the palsy” (see Matthew 9:2–8 ) was read. I have read this account and heard it read many times.

The town of Norwood, a working-class suburb of Boston, held its 11th annual street fair in early September 2013, and I had an opportunity once again to volunteer at our Christian Science Reading Room’s table. In real estate it is said that location, location, location is everything, and our Reading Room has a prime spot on Main Street, where there is an abundance of business and pedestrian traffic.

The Herald of Christian Science  interviewed four international students who spent last summer interning at The Mother Church: Shirley Moihloe from South Africa, Oliver Simpson from England, MoonHee Kwon from South Korea, and Job Okello from Kenya. They shared their thoughts on challenges facing youth in their own countries, and how they have prayed to overcome them in their own lives.

While I was in Africa recently, I heard someone say, “God loves everyone in the Western world more than us. ” Believing this would create a pall of hopelessness that would hover over our lives.

Just as a mother bird extends a sheltering wing over her brood, the tender, mighty embrace of divine Love encompasses its precious creation. God’s unfailing love for Her children is beautifully chronicled throughout the Bible, where that love weaves, through more than 4,000 years of history, a golden thread uniting broken families, healing all manner of illness, restoring life, supplying human needs, and neutralizing whatever would harm.