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In the eight years since our daughter was born, completely new perspectives on life have opened up for my wife and me, as they probably do for many parents. Perhaps there is hardly any other event that changes someone’s outlook as deeply and permanently as the birth of a child.

The senses present material discords to us as facts, but if something is not good, it is not of God, Truth, and therefore is not factual at all.

The reality of the kingdom of heaven that Jesus told us about is not far off; it’s as close as our own hearts as they yearn for God.

Recently when I was serving in my local Christian Science Reading Room, I was unenthusiastically working on a task that needed to be completed that day. And there was an additional task I knew I should do, but that I could put off.

I thought I was entering a metaphorical wilderness after I took early retirement, but relying on God helped me find abundance at every step.

 A temporary estrangement is healed. A family reconciles. 

Why stop at physical healing? Mrs. Eddy yearned for her followers not only to experience spiritual healing of physical ills, but to respond to the impulse to inquire into the great cause that produces the healing, and, like her, to follow these impressions of truth to discover a whole new reality.

Despite a bunch of returned article submissions, this author realized something that gave her hope and a sense of serving the Cause of Christian Science. The act of writing kept her prayerfully alert to the world’s needs, and in effect helped meet those needs by uplifting and healing her thought first. 

Entering the “sanctuary of Spirit” before studying the Christian Science Bible Lesson, we shut out distractions and pressures and open our hearts to God’s healing messages of Truth and Love. Our time with the Lesson is holy.

What does grace mean to you? And what does grace mean in the study and practice of Christian Science?