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Recently I started attending church again after being away from it for several years. It wasn’t that I lived far from a Christian Science church; there’s one just a short drive from my house.
More than a year ago, I had an interview at a consulate in my hometown for the purpose of getting a visa for an overseas trip. After my visa application was approved, I was told to go back to the consulate the following week with my letter of approval in order to retrieve my passport and visa.
I remember the first time I washed feet. In my early teens, I’d been asked to help take care of my grandma whom I was living with at the time.
The Journal is pleased to offer readers the third in an occasional column from the Office of Christian Science Practitioner Activities at The Mother Church in Boston. “Pathways to the practice” is autobiographical.
A couple of years back, while on a cycling trip, I was dwelling on a statement from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: “The spiritual universe, including individual man, is a compound idea, reflecting the divine substance of Spirit” ( p. 468 ).
The discord most impressing an individual will disappear from his or her thought as he or she perceives anyone as being perfect, as God is.
When we challenge pain’s validity, seeing it as a mirage, we truly make progress and find relief.
How many phone calls, emails, or texts have you gotten from someone or some organization trying to sell you something? These telemarketers will keep communicating even after you’ve said you don’t want what they’re selling. I’ve had similar experiences at outdoor markets.
We’re not benefited by trying to use human will to relinquish materiality. Rather, as we realize more clearly the allness of Spirit, God, good, false desires and influences that God never caused will naturally fall away, like barnacles on a ship that sails into fresh waters.
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.