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Q: The Christian Science churches I’ve been in have the words “God is Love” on the wall. It seems so simple, yet I am having difficulty understanding what love is.
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. This, dear one, is the only place you live—not in flesh but in Spirit, unknown to the carnal mind, not threatened or disturbed.
We all need teachers. Without them we wouldn’t know how to drive, analyze graphs, or kick a soccer ball.
In the late 1800s, French impressionist painter Claude Monet painted his famous “Haystack” series, a collection of 25 paintings on this same subject. Monet was fascinated by how his vision of stacks of hay after harvest season changed minute by minute, season by season, depending on time of day, weather, lighting, atmosphere, and perspective.
When the first issue of The Christian Science Monitor was given to Mary Baker Eddy on the dark and foggy day of November 25, 1908, she told those present: “This, in truth, is the lightest of all days. This is the day when our daily paper goes forth to lighten mankind” (Robert Peel, Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Authority , p.
Prayer Is not the Christian’s balm for grief, mid scenes of strife and care, A holy calm, a sweet relief, found oftenest in prayer? Unsatisfying, fraught with fear, our hopes too frequent are; But faith still claims a Father’s ear to listen to our prayer. When pleasure’s siren voice would charm, ambitious hopes ensnare, We gird the Christian armor on and conquer, oft by prayer.
The founder of this magazine, Mary Baker Eddy, once described “Christian” and “Science” as the “two largest words in the vocabulary of thought” ( No and Yes , p. 10 ).
With the growth of an anti-elderly mentality in society, and the challenges of caring for seniors living longer than ever before, we can take a stand that life is always precious and undiminishing.
When a bridge is closed, this writer traces "the footsteps of Truth" to get to Wednesday testimony meeting.
When weeks, then months, pass without any job prospects, a soon-to-be step-dad finds unexpected opportunities for personal growth.