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I love the Second Commandment. “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image,” it begins ( Ex.

One afternoon I was rooting around the kitchen looking for a snack and discovered my husband’s secret stash of Oreo cookies. There was a reason he’d hidden them—I had a tendency to eat up all the goodies before he could have any.

Recently I was impelled to ponder Jesus’ saying: “There is none good but one, that is, God. ” This was his answer to a young man who addressed him as “Good Master” (see Matthew 19:16, 17 ).

In the November 2011 issue of the Journal , in the column, “Frequently Asked Questions on the Healing Practice” (p. 19), the question that month had to do with love in marriage and how “a normal sex life [fits] with a life devoted to Christian Science healing.

For many years, Mary Baker Eddy’s mirror analogy of God and His reflection, man, in a mirror was a challenge to me. She states, “God is revealed only in that which reflects Life, Truth, Love,—yea, which manifests God’s attributes and power, even as the human likeness thrown upon the mirror, repeats the color, form, and action of the person in front of the mirror” ( Science and Health , pp.

When I was a young teenager, I kept a diary. The entries were of no great moment, but they were important to me, and I loved to write.

1898 was an extraordinarily fruitful year for Mary Baker Eddy and the Christian Science movement. It was the year in which the Christian Science Board of Lectureship and Board of Education were established, and the Committee on Publication begun; The Christian Science Publishing Society became a reality, and by the fall of 1898 it was publishing a new “weekly newspaper,” now known as the Christian Science Sentinel.

To students of Christian Science, the Cross and Crown seal symbolizes the heart of our mission. The words in concentric circles that are part of the emblem, “Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons,” evidence our Christian beliefs.

When I read the invitation in the November 2011 Journal to share what membership in The Mother Church means to me, I could almost hear the sound of a voice on the other end of a phone call I received from The Mother Church back in the early 1960s. Although I never fully realized it until now, that call was pivotal in my spiritual growth.

When I received the letter confirming my admission as a member to The Mother Church, I said out loud, “I’m in!” When I heard myself saying that, I sat down for a while to ponder what “I’m in” really meant to me, since that was such an unexpected response.   Here are some of the conclusions I came to: I’m dwelling in the atmosphere of Love; I’m in a loving environment at my branch church, and am included and supported by The Mother Church.