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When her friends liken Christian Science with the practice of visualizing the results we hope for, a woman clarifies.

This writer gets a heads-up: change for its own sake—or true spiritual “change”?

Discerning what's real, and what's just a story.

One morning last winter , I discovered how stunning a New England beach can be in January. As I gazed down from the snowy edge of a sand dune, the water seemed like a huge sheet of cobalt glass stretching out before me, mirroring an equally flawless, porcelain-blue sky above.

The Sea Turtles Recently during a stay at a beach resort I saw a sign saying, “It is turtle season again, so please close the blinds at sundown. ” Of course, I complied.

Thought will finally be understood and seen in all form, substance, and color, but without material accompaniments.   — Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures , p.

I could sense the grief a friend felt as she recalled the days of church services filled with members, lots of children in the Sunday School, and a packed church parking lot. But afterward, I felt a need to answer what has been a question for me as well—What happened? Why aren’t churches as full now as they used to be?  There are plenty of reasonable explanations for the decline in the numbers attending church.

Years ago my wife and I traveled to the state of Washington to spend the summer as campground hosts at Mount Rainier National Park so that I could make the two-day climb of the mountain. As a 30-year-plus resident of Colorado, I’d lived “at altitude”—most recently at 9,200 feet on a mountain near Denver.

I’ve always been deeply grateful that I was born into a home where Mary Baker Eddy was revered and Christian Science was studied. Our family had many proofs of its healing power.

Like Mary Baker Eddy, I too am a daughter of New England. I grew up in Massachusetts, and vacationed in New Hampshire and Maine.