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One day, while I was sharing a quick, one-sentence thought with someone in need of healing, the words flowed out of my mouth spontaneously as if they had been said through me, instead of by me. I knew the words were true, but I didn’t know I understood them.

One day, as I was about to call a Christian Science practitioner for help, I was tempted to voice all the ugly details of a problem so he would know how hard he had to pray for me. Then I started to laugh at how foolish that was.

To me, there is a reason why the phrase “In God We Trust” is an integral part of every piece of money minted in the United States of America. A very sound, strong, and fundamental reason, which undergirds the basis upon which any economy can function—full and complete faith in the one God.

When I was twelve, on the edge of adolescence, I found myself walking alone around my neighborhood, overcome with melancholy, contemplating the uselessness of all human activity, and feeling a longing for death. “What is the purpose of life?” I asked myself.

A journal is a record. It’s an accounting of important things to be remembered.

The sweet sounds and glories of earth and sky, assuming manifold forms and colors,—are they not tangible and material? As Mind they are real, but not as matter. All beauty and goodness are in and of Mind, emanating from God; but when we change the nature of beauty and goodness from Mind to matter, the beauty is marred, through a false conception, and, to the material senses, evil takes the place of good.

Every reader of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, knows that its author, Mary Baker Eddy, opens it with a radical statement: “The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God,—a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love” ( p. 1 ).

As First Reader at my branch church, I put together a Bible lesson on the healing of depression for a Wednesday evening testimony meeting. Gideon, an early Israelite leader (see Judges 6:11–40 ), feels ill at ease because of the evil intentions of the surrounding peoples that want to do him and his fellow Israelite settlers harm.

“Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need,” Mary Baker Eddy states on page 494 of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. This truth has been proved to me many times throughout my life.

I believe it’s possible to say that the oldest natural activity is nursing! The word nurse is derived from the Latin, nurture , meaning “to nourish. ” An expectant mother naturally nurses (nourishes, feeds, enfolds) her unborn child.