Of Good Report

Some time ago I planted corn on a quarter-acre plot. Sixty days later my field showed promising signs of an abundant and high-quality harvest.

Editor’s note: The following is an example of how study and prayer with the weekly Bible Lesson from the Christian Science Quarterly blessed a family, and those they were in contact with, during the Thomas fire in California in 2017 and 2018. The authors share, week by week, what inspired them and brought healing progress.

A year ago our family was joyously awaiting the arrival of a new addition. However, as my daughter’s due date came and went, she became uncomfortable and anxious.

A year or two after graduating from college, I was sharing an apartment with my sister and working part time. At one point my car needed to be in the shop for nearly a week, and upon hearing this news a kind family from church lent me their extra vehicle.

I have had the privilege of teaching in different Christian Science Sunday Schools over many years. This has shown me how well children respond to consideration, compassion, and love.

March is Women’s History Month in the United States, and this year it honors the suffragists, whose valiant efforts gained women the right to vote. Over a span of eighty years these women tirelessly wrote, gave speeches, marched, and even went to prison in support of their cause, which culminated in the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution granting all citizens the same voting rights regardless of gender.

The woman in front of me at our little local grocery store was buying several bags of a gourmet food item. “That looks good,” I told her.

I like to shop at a Mexican grocery store in a small town near where I live in Wisconsin. It offers fruits and vegetables that I enjoyed while living in Mexico at various times over the years, and speaking Spanish with the employees is fun and keeps me in practice.

About three years ago, my parents gave me a call with some very grave news: Their house was about to be flooded. They told me that they were praying diligently and had enlisted the support of a Christian Science practitioner, and that my sister was also praying about this issue.

My friend and I enjoy running together and had an opportunity to run a half-marathon. While we had never tried running such a distance and didn’t have a runner’s training plan, the one thing we did have was some understanding of Christian Science.