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No matter the threat, no matter where in the world, God is a present help.

Serving God in our daily lives, including at church, lifts our burdens.

 It was the first snow of that winter, and I headed out of my hotel for an early morning run. This was decades ago, but I still remember it vividly—the ground was covered with a thin blanket of white and everything seemed extra quiet.

The 18th-century English poet Alexander Pope wrote, “Order is heaven’s first law,” an often-quoted line that Mary Baker Eddy refers to as “so eternally true, so axiomatic, that it has become a truism; and its wisdom is as obvious in religion and scholarship as in astronomy or mathematics” ( Retrospection and Introspection, p. 87 ).

Do you, like me, drive to work on a congested freeway? Is “rush hour” merely a time for sitting in traffic?  One morning, sitting in especially heavy traffic, I began to ponder how Christ Jesus was always praying. I’ve found this to be a seriously wonderful jumping-off point for my prayers.

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How can we take a prayerful approach to considering where we truly find Church? We can start with the Bible. Christ Jesus said, “Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them” ( Matthew 18:20 ), and also, “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me” ( John 12:32 ).

I have been thinking and praying deeply about church and cherishing its role in the world today.   One afternoon I read an address that Mary Baker Eddy wrote to her students in 1894, on the occasion of laying the cornerstone of her church.

Over the years, I have loved pondering the Apostle Paul’s mission of extending Christianity across a broad swath of Asia Minor, Greece, and what was then the Roman empire. With each new venture he encountered challenges, at times severe.

“Yes, I know, I know—casting out demons is what Jesus did. So what does that have to do with today?”  I was having a conversation with a friend about the Cross and Crown insignia found on the cover of Mary Baker Eddy’s writings.