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I wanted to shout the good news from the housetops! That’s how I felt when I first read the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. Its author, Mary Baker Eddy, dedicated the book to “honest seekers for Truth” ( p.

As a staff editor for The Christian Science Journal and Christian Science Sentinel, I regularly have the privilege of reading submissions to these magazines from authors all over the world who have experienced healing through prayer, including the healing of conditions deemed incurable or hopeless by medical physicians. Nothing has been more inspiring to me than to read about how people have felt the presence of God, divine Love, through their prayers, and have been spiritually uplifted, transformed, and restored to wholeness.

While studying abroad in Tibet, I struggled with what seemed to be a very oppressive atmosphere. People’s Liberation Army troops were stationed everywhere we traveled, and I was contending with a lot of negative thoughts regarding the government.

It was a beautiful spring day in April of 2010. When I woke up that morning, I couldn’t imagine wanting to reconnect with the Church of Christ, Scientist, the Church I had willingly left as a young mother and housewife some fifty years before.

Following Annual Meeting 2017, with its upwelling spirit of love and unity, the Christian Science Board of Directors felt the immense value of Christian Scientists continuing to bear witness to the power of Spirit itself in bringing new energies and fresh devotion to our Cause. As of this date, the Board has journeyed to 16 regional meetings for church members, attendees at church services, and others seriously studying Christian Science.

When I made the journey from the United States to South Africa for my brother’s wedding, my airplane route was not direct. I was scheduled to fly from Knoxville, Tennessee, to Chicago O’Hare, then overnight to London Heathrow, followed by another overnight flight to Johannesburg, then to Durban, South Africa.

When I was a child, my first church experience out of the children’s room and in the auditorium was a Thanksgiving service at my branch Church of Christ, Scientist. I was thrilled to sit with my parents, the adults.

Often I’ve struggled when my prayer didn’t bring quick healing. Sometimes I felt frustrated and discouraged, even irritated.

Over the past few years it’s been encouraging to follow reports, particularly in The Christian Science Monitor, that show world governments taking a stand for honest innovation. For example, at the G20 summit in Turkey in November 2015, “The leaders of the G20 nations—including from major cyber powers such as Russia, China, and the US but also from Brazil, India, and Indonesia—approved this latest UN GGE [Group of Governmental Experts] report [on cyberspace norms] and called out several specific norms, including most surprisingly the prohibition on commercial espionage.

For several days I had been striving to feel the harmony and joy of divine Love’s presence but was finding it difficult to forgive a relative’s unkindness toward me. Then I remembered a potent statement Christ Jesus made about perception: “The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness” ( Luke 11:34 ).