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The town of Norwood, a working-class suburb of Boston, held its 11th annual street fair in early September 2013, and I had an opportunity once again to volunteer at our Christian Science Reading Room’s table. In real estate it is said that location, location, location is everything, and our Reading Room has a prime spot on Main Street, where there is an abundance of business and pedestrian traffic.

The Herald of Christian Science  interviewed four international students who spent last summer interning at The Mother Church: Shirley Moihloe from South Africa, Oliver Simpson from England, MoonHee Kwon from South Korea, and Job Okello from Kenya. They shared their thoughts on challenges facing youth in their own countries, and how they have prayed to overcome them in their own lives.

While I was in Africa recently, I heard someone say, “God loves everyone in the Western world more than us. ” Believing this would create a pall of hopelessness that would hover over our lives.

Just as a mother bird extends a sheltering wing over her brood, the tender, mighty embrace of divine Love encompasses its precious creation. God’s unfailing love for Her children is beautifully chronicled throughout the Bible, where that love weaves, through more than 4,000 years of history, a golden thread uniting broken families, healing all manner of illness, restoring life, supplying human needs, and neutralizing whatever would harm.

Compromising can have both positive and negative connotations, depending on a given situation. Sometimes compromising may not be appropriate, but many times, when founded on prayer, compromising can be incredibly healing.

I believe it is safe to say that most students of Christian Science agree that its Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker Eddy, had a wonderful way with words. Pondering Mrs.

By practically universal consent, we are believed to be the product of human parents, born into matter by material means. That is what I was taught while I was growing up and how I thought of myself.

Early in my study of Christian Science, I used to think, “OK, I’m bouncing along down here on this lower human level, and when it gets problematic or frightening, I can rise up to a level of spiritual consciousness, and from that height I’m able to fix, smooth out, or patch up this human level down here. ” That approach, however, isn’t Christian Science.

Boston is no stranger to influential battles. Revolutionary ones in particular.

Compatible comrades are a natural part of our spiritual journey.