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A Christian Science teacher takes on the question: “Does God, divine Love, require  me to think this thought?”

Start your diagnosis with God's view.

Throughout my first three years of college, I planned to write a thesis during my senior year. (Although doing so was not a graduation requirement, seniors who wanted to could apply to write a thesis.

I always had a yearning to find the true way to worship God. As a child, I thought of God as a very good, big man in the sky whom we can pray to.

I had recently been elected Reader of our branch church to conduct the church services and was sitting in the Reader’s room praying before the Sunday service. A ruby-throated hummingbird was enjoying his breakfast from the lavender in bloom outside my window.

In a recent article in the Journal (“Purify Your Thinking,” October 2011, p. 8 ), the writer explained how she took the commandment “Thou shalt not commit adultery” ( Exodus 20:14 ) and put the idea into simplified wording, applicable to her younger Sunday School students.

Our local branch church has a prayer topic that we address together every month. A recent topic was “Healing Partisanship.

“Honesty is spiritual power” ( Science and Health , p. 453 ).

I had an unhappy message on my answering machine. After listening to it, I elected to delete it—not to replay it, not to save it, not to mull over it, not to analyze it.

It’d been almost six months since our last phone call. Because we’re sisters, this was quite a departure from our normal, monthly hour-long calls.