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Church Alive

CHURCH. The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle. The Church is that institution, which affords proof of its utility and is found elevating the race, rousing the dormant understanding from material beliefs to the apprehension of spiritual ideas and the demonstration of divine Science, thereby casting out devils, or error, and healing the sick.
 – Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

The pot is not the point

By Claire Fisher

From the February 2012 issue of The Christian Science Journal

I had this once-beautiful fern
 hung in a dark corner
 by a dark window.
 Now years old—long and thin
 it was neglected.
 I often forgot to water it
 or feed it
 Never replenished the soil.

There was so much dieback,
 yellowed fronds, leaves dropping
 nothing new. 

A voice:
 Get rid of it. Throw it out. Get a different one.