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I once knew a Christian Science practitioner who seemed always near the phone taking calls for the practice. I asked her, “Do you spend all your time thinking about God?” She replied, “Actually, my prayers are most effective when I think as God.

The word God is such a tiny simple word, and yet if we think of all it implies, the immensity of what we behold is so tremendous that we stand in awe at what we see. I certainly stood in awe when I found myself in a life-threatening situation one extremely cold, dark winter’s evening.

Every Sunday morning, I get ready and rush to beat the traffic in Nairobi to attend the weekly service at my branch Church of Christ, Scientist. When I arrive there, we all sit together as we wait for the Readers to share the Christian Science Lesson-Sermon with the congregation.

At a time when news reports still refer regularly to the worldwide “credit crunch,” I’ve been remembering the many times in my own experience when challenging situations have been overcome by applying the truths taught in Christian Science. At one point in my husband’s career, the firm he worked for was threatened with bankruptcy due to a global recession.

Having taught grades kindergarten through university, I often pray briefly before I enter a classroom. This simple mental act has helped me recognize the Christ, the true manifestation of the one Mind, God, to be the basis of the teaching in each classroom.

One morning, during my daily bicycle ride, I followed the usual trail. At one point along my route there is a.

A big “aha moment” came to me one summer while reading through the Gospels on one of my days off from my job at a summer camp. I was thoroughly struck with the connection between faith and the Christ.

When my wife passed on, I felt a terrible sense of loneliness. We had been married for over 58 years, and to say that I missed her would not begin to express how I felt.

I enjoyed a career in real estate for many years, in which my daily study of the Christian Science Bible Lesson played a big part.   At one time, one of my clients found a house that she felt would be much more suitable than the apartment she owned.

Many people around the world are striving to be better neighbors relative to the environment—from the simple act of not littering, to using less fossil fuel for transportation, to the development of advanced technologies for energy conservation. But while individuals and organizations work to improve the physical environment, there is a great demand to bring a mental purification to all that we do.