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Sometimes it might feel as though we are trying to swim upstream, against the current. And even if we try to change our course to move in the right direction, it can still seem difficult to navigate the rough, deep waters.

All of a sudden something is “in your face”—a sudden pain, some threat to your safety—making you afraid. It all seems so real.

Editor’s note: The following are adapted excerpts from a talk given by the author in November 2018 to an audience from various faith backgrounds at the Parliament of the World’s Religions.   divider The 2018 Parliament theme, “The Promise of Inclusion, the Power of Love,” holds out hope for all men, women, and children—whether part of today’s millions of refugees, or a child bullied on the playground.

The healing practice of Christian Science includes the understanding that the divine Mind, or God, is the only real Mind, and that our only real selfhood is the expression of this Mind. This means that we don’t have a personal mind or ego-driven selfhood separate from God, the one divine Mind that includes all.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science, explained that Christ Jesus’ “mission was both individual and collective. He did life’s work aright not only in justice to himself, but in mercy to mortals,—to show them how to do theirs, but not to do it for them nor to relieve them of a single responsibility” ( Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.

For centuries, in some parts of the world, knowing and claiming one’s ancestry was a common practice in establishing one’s legal rights or other successions of entitlements sanctioned by law. In recent years, though, there has been a noticeable marketing effort to promote the search and discovery of one’s lineage for the purpose of establishing a sense of identity and social relatedness.

Popular belief insists that everything that exists, animate or inanimate, is material. It says that everything in the universe is governed by physical laws, from the orbiting of the planets to the health of the body.

Dear Reader, We have been hearing from readers about how you’ve shared articles with others. A reader in the Democratic Republic of the Congo offered an article to some classmates, and it sparked a conversation about coming to the Christian Science organization on campus.

I used to be very anxious about talking with others about Christian Science. The root of this anxiety may have been partly nervousness, but there was also a deeper issue: I was holding on to a belief that understanding Christian Science made me different—or even better—than everyone else.

Whether your first student runs into the Christian Science Sunday School with a Superman cape on and poses with his hands on his hips, or hides in his grandmother’s arms because he doesn’t want her to leave, you are in for a treat. Teaching the three- and four-year-old children is a true treasure.