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The flight attendant ran down the aisle while the pilot sternly advised all passengers to return to our seats and buckle our seatbelts. As I sat there on this flight, seatbelt buckled, with the plane jerking back and forth, up and down, I turned my thought to God.

There is absolutely nothing more joy-producing or important than the opportunities we have to pray for ourselves, others, and our world, and gain some deeper insight into the universe, including ourselves and everyone around us, as God sees it. Recently, I had such an opportunity.

In the book of Genesis, through the account given of Abraham and Sarah’s life, we gain an important insight about the one God from the most unlikely person—Hagar. Hagar was the handmaid of Sarah and from a polytheistic culture, yet her experience teaches us about the ever-present nature of God and His impartial love.

As I parted from a friend recently, he said to me, “Be safe. ” I know he was wishing the very best for me.

We often read today about spiritual healing, but there are so many different approaches to it, and even those that appear to work at first sometimes prove to be inconsistent or unreliable in their results. On the other hand, those who have studied the four Gospels in the Bible containing the teachings and healing works of Christ Jesus undoubtedly have discovered that Jesus consistently healed the types of ailments people face today—including those that are acute and chronic, congenital, hereditary, and contagious—and he healed them on the spot, instantaneously, and without medicine.

Both in the Bible and in Mary Baker Eddy’s writings, we find the instruction to “pray without ceasing. ” I’ve always felt that was something to aspire to, but I was never quite sure how to accomplish this.

I once was a lighthouse keeper. My husband and I served on a tiny island in an oceanic bay where tidal flows churned against a major rushing river outlet.

When we turn wholeheartedly to God to find the very core of our being as His likeness, we begin to feel our unity with God—the divine Principle, Love—which “constitutes the brotherhood of man” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 340 ).

This author writes, “We should never accept a feeling of helplessness in the face of strident disunity. There is power and joy in feeling confident that it is natural for us to spiritualize our lives, to be governed by one infinite Mind, and to witness to the unifying power of divine Love.”

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