Spiritual Short

Recently when I was serving in my local Christian Science Reading Room, I was unenthusiastically working on a task that needed to be completed that day. And there was an additional task I knew I should do, but that I could put off.

The senses present material discords to us as facts, but if something is not good, it is not of God, Truth, and therefore is not factual at all.

Entering the “sanctuary of Spirit” before studying the Christian Science Bible Lesson, we shut out distractions and pressures and open our hearts to God’s healing messages of Truth and Love. Our time with the Lesson is holy.

As a young camper , I was crossing a stream with other young hikers when our counselor warned, “Step carefully onto each rock; the water is deep. ” I wondered, “How deep?” The following splash and water up to my waist answered my question.

Father-Mother God, Loving me,— Guard me when I sleep; Guide my little feet Up to Thee. (Mary Baker Eddy, Poems, p.

Once on a flight, I was reading a book on my iPad and got a notification that someone was trying to share a picture with me. Since I didn’t know anyone else on the flight, I assumed it was a mistake and declined the request.

A couple of years back, while on a cycling trip, I was dwelling on a statement from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: “The spiritual universe, including individual man, is a compound idea, reflecting the divine substance of Spirit” ( p. 468 ).

If I was forever “there” in God’s presence, I could never be “there” in the presence of an accident.

Each morning, I try to pray by focusing on God, good, and what is true about me and the world. The other morning, I woke to the repetition of this line of the Lord’s Prayer as if it were being spoken to me: “Thy will be done” ( Matthew 6:10 ).

Birds inspire this author. She realized she needed to let her thought soar beyond and above what the physical senses reported.