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The importance of moment-by-moment practice—whether or not we are “full-time” practitioners.

When does healing happen in Christian Science? When we start to pray? When we feel our prayer is answered? Some time in between?

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 ).