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Mary Baker Eddy speaks of Dr. Benjamin Rush as “the famous Philadelphia teacher of medical practice” ( Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.

As I looked out my kitchen window to the backyard, there was my son, almost two years old, sitting under a beautiful blossoming tree, his lap covered in puppies, with two big red balloons floating above his head. He looked so peaceful and joyful; to me, it was pure happiness.

How could an event related in the Bible that took place almost three thousand years ago possibly help me resolve a difficult problem in my own life? I found out early in my work experience after becoming unhappy with a job I had held for about a year. An opening in another department at a higher paygrade looked very appealing, and a manager I knew had quietly encouraged me to apply for the position.

The Bible story of the fall of Jericho is one that has always held the imagination. Blocking the Israelites’ entrance to the Promised Land, Jericho was seen as impregnable—a mighty fortress, an impassable barrier.

Nobel physicist Albert Einstein advised: “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking that created them. ” He urged a new way of thinking.

I will always remember the first time I attended The Mother Church, weeping as I read on one of its walls these words Mary Baker Eddy adapted from her book Science and Health: “If sin makes sinners, Truth and Love can unmake them. ” The hope of being able to be washed clean of years of sinful living was being shown to me for the first time.

We can perceive and experience freedom, security, and guidance even amidst the hustle and bustle. Why? Because “spiritual guides,” as Mary Baker Eddy describes angels (see Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.

Exploring Science and Health brings profound healing.

Whether true or apocryphal , the story goes that a famous Russian general named Grigory Potemkin erected fake settlements along Empress Catherine the Great’s route to the Crimea for the purpose of deceiving and impressing her when she visited the region in 1787. Down through the years, the phrase “Potemkin village” has come to mean an appearance designed to deceive—a façade behind which there is no reality.

Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “Mortal mind is the harp of many strings, discoursing either discord or harmony according as the hand, which sweeps over it, is human or divine” ( p. 213 ).