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The United States Internal Revenue Service required me to file a form for an investment I had made years ago. I had a discussion with a court trustee with access to the file, and things seemed to be in order for me to receive it in proper time.

Perhaps few words in the English language have been so misunderstood as the word meek, the object of Christ Jesus’ third beatitude: “Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth” ( Matthew 5:5 ). By popular reckoning, meek means weak.

Gratitude can help lead us out of darkness and into the light.

Editor’s note: Maryl has been asked by the Christian Science Board of Lectureship to be available this lecture year (July 1, 2018, to June 30, 2019) specifically to give classroom and ecumenical lectures.

The following is an edited and abridged transcript of the “Walking with the Word” workshop held June 3, 2018, the day before Annual Meeting, in the Extension of The Mother Church. It was also broadcast live online, and you can watch the complete replay at christianscience.

One day, after hearing more news about disagreement and impasse in negotiations between countries and leaders, I finally asked myself, “What’s needed here? What can I do to help bring unity and agreement to these meetings?” The answer came, “What’s needed is spiritual mediation right where there seems to be confrontation. ” But what is spiritual mediation? I knew that it didn’t have to do with believing in spirits, or anything otherworldly.

The “Mind” in the title refers to the one God, the infinite, ever-present divine Spirit, which is everywhere at all times and is always expressing its intelligent good for all. Mind is one of seven synonyms for God prominently employed in the teachings of Christian Science (see Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.

Have you ever felt sympathy for another person who was suffering, and then started to suffer yourself? Perhaps the individual was depressed, and you started to feel depressed, or this person was ill, and you started to feel ill? If so, it’s a symptom of what I call sympathetic suffering, which is any type of suffering taken on from seeing it in others and thinking of it as a reality. It’s not something to fear, but something that can be prevented through an understanding of God’s omnipresent love and care, which does not actually allow for suffering at all, let alone the transfer of suffering from one person to another.

At some time or another, most of us have probably seen what happens when a boat skims the sea: A wave is created in its wake, resulting in a series of diminishing ripples on the surface of the water. Or when we throw a pebble into a pond, we see many rings spreading out as a result of that single action.

In the first book of the Bible, Genesis, we read about a healing of infertility that Abraham and Sarah experienced. Though Abraham and Sarah were well past the age when it is commonly believed to be physically possible to have children, God assured them they would have a son, and they did.