Editorials

The author points out that “the more we pray and ponder the spiritual facts of existence, rejoice in their ever-presence, utilize them in our daily experience, the more we experience a conscious wide-awakeness to spiritual reality.“

We're constantly making choices about what to think but sometimes don't realize we're choosing. One person, for example, may view a situation as threatening.

To be the child of God is to be dearly loved. It is to be created in God's image.

There is only one divine Principle, God, and only one divine teaching of that Principle. Through His Christ, Truth, God has revealed Himself, His all-controlling laws, and His perfect creation, including spiritual man.

Every day the flood tides of humanity's troubles seem to wash stronger at our own doorstep, touching our lives in innumerable ways. The urgencies of strife at home and abroad, of worldly confusion and suffering, and of potentially apocalyptic technology drive home the increasing necessity to deal with mankind's needs in our daily prayers.

There's something about the start of a new year that makes people resolve, "I'm going to do better this year. " And for a while we often do manage to maintain our resolutions.

In answer to the question "How would you define Christian Science?" Mrs. Eddy writes, "As the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony.

We know Christian Science is radical; it challenges material appearances and matter-based conclusions at every step. But we may not realize just how radical it is until we explore, with open mind and receptive heart, the implications of the Truth it reveals.

In contrast with Christian Science we might classify as "mental suggestion" that subversive technique of a so-called material mentality which seeks willful control over bodily conditions, material circumstances, or events. It may take the form of autosuggestion or a silent attempt to influence other human minds—either for good or for evil purposes.

How secure we feel when we can speak with authority. We know the subject we're talking about, and our words ring with the assurance that comes of certainty.