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What does it really mean to "Remember the Sabbath"? Victoria finds fresh inspiration on the Fourth Commandment.

I’ve seen the presence and power of divine Love proved countless times in my life—injuries and illnesses have been healed, relationship problems have been resolved, and employment has been found. I know I can put my hand in God’s, and He will guide me safely to the right solutions.

Years ago, after finishing college, I moved to the West Coast, away from my family, friends, and comfort zone. The hustle and bustle of Los Angeles was quite different from the slow-moving Midwestern town I had grown up in.

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 ).