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When a loved one passes on, overcoming grief can be an especially challenging task. Yet, many have found that through the teachings of Christian Science grief can be thoroughly and completely healed, whether that takes persistence in prayer or happens very quickly.

To know what God would or wouldn’t say to us, it is first necessary to know how God always communicates spiritual answers to a yearning heart. We may feel that we don’t see adequate answers to the challenges we face, and we may wonder how anything spiritual could do more than ease the stress of difficulties.

Recently, while thinking about divine Love, I read these words from First John: “We love him, because he first loved us” ( 4:19 ). I wondered, Is the reason I love God really that He first loved me? It seemed so binary and limited on the surface.

Perhaps you have had questions like “Why should I read the Christian Science periodicals?” “Why should I write for them?” “Why should I prayerfully support them?” or “Why should I share them?” Each of these “Why me?” questions could have many unique “because” responses. But one broad “because” is true in respect to all these “whys.

It’s interesting to note that the early Christian Church strove for unity. It seems that the early church leaders realized that dissent and inharmony, more than anything else, could undermine the spread of genuine Christianity.

In the early 1900s a family relative became a Christian Science practitioner in St. Louis.

Many are at least somewhat familiar with the biblical account, beginning in Exodus, of Moses leading the children of Israel out of bondage in Egypt toward the Promised Land—Canaan, promised by God to Abraham, who would be made “a father of many nations” (see Genesis 17:1–8 ). All along the way God guided the children of Israel, protected them, fed them, and taught them about His nature and relation to them.

Have you ever heard the expression, “For one look at error take ten looks at Truth”? It comes from a statement that William P. McKenzie attributed to Mary Baker Eddy, “For one look at error take ten at the ideal Christ” (“ The uplifted ideal ,” September 1904, Journal ).

The Psalmist talks of worshiping the Lord in “the beauty of holiness” ( Psalms 29:2, 96:9 ). For years I’ve wondered what that meant.

Trusting God’s unfoldment has been one of the hardest things for me to do because I’ve always been a planner. Wanting to see the end from the beginning.