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This author didn’t want to miss attending his Christian Science Association meeting in person due to financial challenges. Prayer turns things around. 

A lawyer realizes that it was not roles in the law firm that would supply human needs: It was God.

As she faces tax issues with a family business, the thought comes to this author that the men and women in Congress, as well as their staff members, sometimes write laws and regulations with good intentions, but without realizing the unintended consequences of their actions on some people and businesses. 

Outside my window, marine blue with swirls of turquoise melds with soft yellow and a blaze of orange. As I gaze on the magnificent sunset, the luminescent colors kaleidoscope into new patterns, filling the horizon with glory.

Feeling the sublimity of sunlight rising over the ocean one morning, I watched its radiance. Just as dawn’s light eventually fills the sky, God illumines our lives, bringing freedom and healing in glorious ways.

Mary Baker Eddy includes this question in her textbook on Christian Science healing, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: “How can I progress most rapidly in the understanding of Christian Science?” Her answer begins this way: “Study thoroughly the letter and imbibe the spirit” ( p. 495 ).

One of the Bible’s most well-known imperatives (appearing throughout the Scriptures) is, “Be not afraid!” Initially, the phrase can seem comforting. But in my experience, it has often quickly caused me to ask, “How do I ‘be not afraid’ when I am afraid in this frightening moment?”  Yet being unafraid is exactly what is needed at such times.

Success in healing is dependent upon thought being made to move—a quickening of thought, if you will. And what we understand about how God communicates to us makes all the difference.

What is the composer, God, expressing in each individual? It’s not physicality, a personality, or inharmony. We are spiritual. We are God’s song. 

The Book of Acts records that after the stoning of Stephen, who was one of the early Christians, a great persecution arose against the young Christian church in Jerusalem, and most believers scattered throughout the region, fleeing for their lives (see Acts 8:1 ). Regardless of this crisis, Acts continues with accounts of these followers of Christ Jesus sharing their new faith, making new disciples, and sowing the seeds of new churches wherever they went.