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Several years ago, I visited a friend who was restoring her home. As she talked about her different house projects, she explained that while the fireplace was the original, the mantel on the fireplace was not.

Dear Reader, “Why was this article repeated? It is a very helpful article that I read in the Monitor as well as an earlier Sentinel this year. Why?” This reader was referring to “Find balance: Look at the big picture.

Students of Christian Science around the world are preparing to study the Thanksgiving Bible Lesson from the  Christian Science Quarterly this month and participate in corresponding church services. As we celebrate in this way, we are putting gratitude into action, thereby opening the door of thought to good, which is a consciousness of God.

Christian Science Sunday School  is a wonderful learning experience—for both teacher and pupils. Each class is a joyful opportunity to ask and answer questions about the Bible and the teachings of Christian Science, and to share insights on putting what has been learned into practice.

I love the Wednesday evening testimony meeting at my branch Church of Christ, Scientist. This is a time set aside to show proof of the Science of Christ.

The following is an edited and abridged transcript of the “An able ministry—when healing is too real to keep to ourselves” session held June 1, 2019, the Saturday before Annual Meeting, in the Extension of The Mother Church. It was also broadcast live online, and you can watch the complete replay at christianscience.

While living far away from my home country, I found myself a target of mean-spirited comments for reasons I could only guess were racial or ethnic and cultural. As a youth I had been familiar with that kind of prejudice, having been harassed in my own school many times for choosing or defending a friend who might not have had a dark enough skin color (as was more accepted by those who were native or part-native in the area).

A couple of years ago, I felt the need to explore the meaning of compassion more deeply. I’d been feeling exhausted by the constant push and pull of the political situation in the world.

The words we choose when praying might be significant. Silent words can indicate our heart’s desire.

Sometimes it can seem that long-acknowledged standards and axioms have dissipated and are no longer relevant in this modern society. For instance, the word Christ, traditionally a name most reverently associated with Jesus, is often used today as a common exclamation of astonishment, despair—or even worse.