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I’ve often heard sayings such as, “Hate the sin, not the sinner. ” My study of Christian Science has given me a spiritual perspective on this concept, as I’ve learned that sin or any evil, sickness, or wrong isn’t part of a person.

The hours I spent studying at the Reading Room gave me strength to adhere to morality at work and not give up my mission to bless the community.

During the early 1990s, I worked in the Civilian Personnel Policy Division of the Office of the United States Secretary of Defense. We developed policies and programs, and proposed legislation for the Department of Defense’s nearly 800,000 civilians.

In her capacity as a Christian Science nurse, this author has learned many spiritual lessons and shares a few of her own healings.

My husband and I were nearing our retirement years, and I knew we needed a change so that we could retire. We both worked heavy-labor, low-paying self-employed jobs that offered no benefits, and we also had no savings.

God does indeed bring together need and supply for the universal good.

Some time ago, I had an eye-opening experience that gave me a deeper understanding of the truth which Jesus taught us. I was struggling to breathe and there were moments where I was fearful I might not survive.

The lifeless influence that would hide or even seem to bury churches is actually in consciousness. It therefore needs to be exposed and addressed in thought. It cannot be ignored. 

We can resist the temptation to use God as a sort of “cosmic bellhop” we call on only when we need help.

Christian healing was not a special power exclusive to Jesus, nor was it a temporary exception to the general laws of being.