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Several years ago, I made an annual trek to a Christian Science nursing facility in California to prune their 250 rose bushes. That particular year, the weather was colder and wetter than usual.

When I first found Christian Science, I was surprised to learn that I didn’t have to catch a cold just because it was going around. One day I asked the librarian at a Christian Science Reading Room some questions about how to handle the “bug” people were complaining about.

Have you ever wondered if the opportunity to bless humanity in a meaningful way has passed you by, and that now it’s too late? I know I have. But I find great comfort in the fact that each one of us is always blessed to be a blessing.

We occasionally use the expression “out of the mouth of babes” ( Ps. 8:2 ) when hearing a child utter something that sounds so “adult” or mature.

A recent Christian Science Bible Lesson contained this statement from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy: “The foundation of mortal discord is a false sense of man’s origin” ( p. 262 ).

We all know David wallops Goliath in the end. But how exactly did a young shepherd boy triumph over a menacing man of war?  It struck me recently that the key to the whole story—including its healing relevance to our lives—is in one little phrase: “five smooth stones.

Throughout her writings, Mary Baker Eddy explains that it is not the intention of Christian Science that people rely on it only when they feel ill or when faced with inharmony. We must live this Science every day.

Jesus placed many demands on his disciples. Chief among them was to heal the sick.

The Bible is filled with accounts of healing. The dead raised to life.

“Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word” ( Luke 1:38 ).   Few passages in Scripture touch the heart as deeply as Mary’s humble and obedient response to the angel Gabriel when she was told that she would conceive a child who would be called the Son of God.