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Ice on a tree branch becomes a lesson in potent prayer.

To “pray without ceasing” means to be conscious of God in everything we do.

When we are able to quiet all our rushing thoughts, we make space within us to hear God’s loving and peaceful messages.

Got a tough job to do? Take a lesson from Moses.

The garden always seemed greener on the other side for the writer, until she had a heart filled with gratitude.

The weekly Christian Science Bible Lesson is a compelling sermon for Sunday church services—and it has the power to heal.

Dear Journal, My name is Victor. I have been studying Christian Science for almost two years now.

Once while getting ready to attend a members’ meeting in my branch church, I heard a grumpy thought in my head that said, “Being a church member is no picnic!” Not a particularly healing or constructive observation, I quickly realized, so I took a moment to reconsider my understanding of and feeling for Church, which Mary Baker Eddy defined in part as “the structure of Truth and Love” ( Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 583 ).

I grew up an avid reader in a family of book lovers. From an early age, I treasured reading the Christian Science Bible Lessons, chapters of the Bible, and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

Not long after I went into the public practice of Christian Science, I got a call from a woman who had experienced immediate relief when she had asked me to pray for her the day before. She was so pleased that she now wanted me to treat a list of long-standing ailments.