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One popular musical group today is “One Direction,” a British pop group. They were most recently seen worldwide singing at the closing ceremony of the Olympics. The song they chose for that performance was one of their first and most famous songs, called “What makes you beautiful?”  

Two stories in the Bible invoke the different ways two friends found the "treasure" of Christian Science.

A view from a window reveals the lie of the physical senses.

I was on vacation in the south of France last year. One morning I woke up and I went to take a swim with my family.

I have always drawn a great sense of comfort from Psalm 23 along with the spiritual sense Mary Baker Eddy gives in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, mainly because they offer the assurance that God, the Father of us all, not only loves us with all His power, but also feeds and supplies us with all we need. It reads in part: “[Divine Love] is my shepherd; I shall not want.

The study and practice of Christian Science give us a foundation to better understand our relationship to God, who is Life. Some years ago, before I started studying this Science, I always questioned the reason why people live and die.

As the mother of one child, expecting our second, I came across copies of the Journal and the  Christian Science Sentine l in our local laundromat. I was working in an intensive care unit as a medical nurse at the time.

Many people at one point or another find themselves thinking that life seems unsatisfying or incomplete. They start to wonder, “How did I get here?” and “Why is everyone else’s life so much better?” Those kinds of questions began to define my own outlook.

Being fond of a book may not be unusual. But what about a book that’s fond of its owner? Maybe I should define what I mean by this kind of fondness.

One week in the Christian Science Bible Lesson on “Spirit,” there was a passage from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures that I’ve probably read hundreds of times. It says: “Man understands spiritual existence in proportion as his treasures of Truth and Love are enlarged.