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Where to find the antidote for doubts and fears that assail us.

Whatever evil we seem to be facing, an understanding of God’s infinite power reduces it to nothing.

Late-night prayers and a Concord search spark a change in thought—and bring about healing. 

One snowy winter day I was taking my usual train ride into work, preparing prayerfully for a very busy day ahead. As I hurriedly came out of the train stop, I saw a large crowd of people gathered, so I stopped to see what was going on.

“Work is the reflection of income already received. ” This was the thought that came to me just after I had moved to Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory, the seat of the Federal Government.

The four young swimmers were excitedly diving into the water at the local gravel pit and coming up with a variety of colorful, beautiful rocks they had found at the bottom. One young boy swam over to me and asked breathlessly, “Do you want me to find you some diamonds?”   To see the enthusiasm of these innocent amateur geologists made my heart sing.

For more than a century, the Bible Lessons published in the Christian Science Quarterly have been at the core of Sunday sermons at Christian Science services, of healing in these services, and of individual study and practice of Christian Science. However, when Mary Baker Eddy first organized her Church, she had not yet established these Lessons.

Mary Baker Eddy called it a “joyful meeting” when Christ Jesus and his disciples ate breakfast together “on the shore of the Galilean Sea” ( Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 34 ).

In popular usage, the phrase to “fight fire with fire” means to retaliate—to match aggression with aggression—in other words, “an eye for an eye. ” But the phrase was coined to describe a technique for literally fighting brush fires.

How do we usher in a receptive thought? The author notes that “true hospitality begins in our own thought and includes a willingness to welcome in the presence of divine Love.”