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Some time ago, I had an eye-opening experience that gave me a deeper understanding of the truth which Jesus taught us. I was struggling to breathe and there were moments where I was fearful I might not survive.

A couple of years back, while on a cycling trip, I was dwelling on a statement from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: “The spiritual universe, including individual man, is a compound idea, reflecting the divine substance of Spirit” ( p. 468 ).

How many phone calls, emails, or texts have you gotten from someone or some organization trying to sell you something? These telemarketers will keep communicating even after you’ve said you don’t want what they’re selling. I’ve had similar experiences at outdoor markets.

We’re not benefited by trying to use human will to relinquish materiality. Rather, as we realize more clearly the allness of Spirit, God, good, false desires and influences that God never caused will naturally fall away, like barnacles on a ship that sails into fresh waters. 

The lifeless influence that would hide or even seem to bury churches is actually in consciousness. It therefore needs to be exposed and addressed in thought. It cannot be ignored. 

God does indeed bring together need and supply for the universal good.

After 25 years of dedicated employment, I, along with roughly three fourths of my associates, was informed that we were being released from our professional positions at the institute at which we worked. Prior to our release, there had been an accelerating amount of political turmoil both within and without our place of work, and I had become increasingly dissatisfied with deteriorating conditions that were stifling my ability to implement more creative and effective techniques to uphold a high standard in my work.

I’ve often heard sayings such as, “Hate the sin, not the sinner. ” My study of Christian Science has given me a spiritual perspective on this concept, as I’ve learned that sin or any evil, sickness, or wrong isn’t part of a person.

The hours I spent studying at the Reading Room gave me strength to adhere to morality at work and not give up my mission to bless the community.

During the early 1990s, I worked in the Civilian Personnel Policy Division of the Office of the United States Secretary of Defense. We developed policies and programs, and proposed legislation for the Department of Defense’s nearly 800,000 civilians.