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I was at a recent Wednesday evening testimony meeting at my Christian Science branch church, listening to the gospel narrative of Jesus’ healing the ten lepers (see Luke 17:12–19 ). A corresponding citation from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy was also read.
After many years of drought in California’s Mojave Desert, plant life and desert wildflowers were thought to be incapable of survival until one season the rains came and refreshed the dry ground. The stream of cars driving out to the desert to see the fresh blooms stretched for miles.
There is a great deal of power in spiritual resolve. This precious quality of thought courageously affirms that God is all good, and sticks to it! Spiritual resolve is harvested from the soil of humility, which surrenders what we think we see and know, for what God is and does.
I grew up in Christian Science and joined The Mother Church when I was 12. A few years later, when I was a university student, I was backpacking in Greece and was in Athens on a Sunday.
During my senior year in high school, I was preparing for college in many ways. I felt one of the most important ways I could prepare was to become a member of The Mother Church.
The first year I attended college, I became active in the Christian Science organization (CSO) on campus. One day, The Mother Church sent a Christian Science practitioner to meet and talk with us.
I joined The Mother Church when I was in my teens. I had attended Sunday School and had some great healings.
Practitioners and Patients. Members of this Church shall hold in sacred confidence all private communications made to them by their patients; also such information as may come to them by reason of their relation of practitioner to patient.
Waking up early, I heard fierce winds pounding against the house. I was booked on a flight to Mexico that day for a Christian Science lecture tour, so I lay in bed quietly praying.
In order to neutralize a poison and destroy its effects, one needs the precise antidote. Who would deny, then, that the world needs the precise antidote for the poison of willpower?