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In these pages we’ve gathered several shorter items—articles of less than page in length and excerpts from longer manuscripts that offer useful, inspiring insights. We hope you enjoy this kind of short-form nourishment in each issue. 

The majesty of Christian Science

From the January 2011 issue of The Christian Science Journal


One evening, as I pulled into the church parking lot for the Wednesday evening service, I learned an important meeting with our lawyer had been delayed—yet again. This meeting revolved around a sensitive legal matter that had caused me and my family a great deal of anguish. For months, we’d tried to schedule a meeting with legal counsel and, once again, our attempt had failed.

At first I felt irritated and frustrated. But as I walked toward the church, I lowered my head and softly prayed: “OK God, is it a good thing or a bad thing that this is being put off again? I know You will let me know some way, somehow.”

Just as I looked up, I saw perched on the apex of the church roof the most beautiful red-tailed hawk I’d ever seen. I stopped in awe. It seemed so close, so large. Its feathers draped around its head like a robe as the evening sunset cast a pink glow.

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