I serve in a Christian Science Reading Room. I’ve found that working in this role not only supports The Church of Christ, Scientist, and our community, but also supports my own spiritual growth.
Around August of 2025, I was speaking with my colleagues about spiritual vision and how it applied to the Reading Room. We also discussed the metaphysical idea that matter has no intelligence to make any conditions. A study of Christian Science shows that God is Spirit, as John 4:24 says, and that Spirit is what has substance and gives us our being.
One colleague then shared that plants had revived in a closet “where there was neither light nor outside air,” as a biography relates, after Mrs. Eddy prayed about them (see Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Healer, Amplified Edition, p. 292). This story was a good illustration of how, in reality, matter has no intelligence to act or create; it is Spirit that regenerates.
