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When a rowdy group of teenage boys trespass repeatedly on his property, this author knows he needs to get to work to see them as God’s children. 

This contributor has found freedom, joy, and health, including a harmonious childbirth and a healing of asthma for her daughter, through her study of Christian Science, which reveals the allness of God, good.

Because John the Baptist prophesied and heralded Christ’s coming, I decided to study three of John’s interactions with Christ Jesus. I was hoping to glimpse more of Christ through John the Baptist’s eyes.

In spiritual healing what we see as a problem is really a mortal thought that appears to be made manifest. It’s as if the mortal thought is the projector that overlays, or superimposes, an image of discord. The answer, then, is to remove the mortal thought, and then it cannot show up in our experience. 

The physical universe is really a false concept in human consciousness. Grasping this, and seeing the universe as God’s entirely spiritual creation, gives us dominion.

By following Christ Jesus’ example and awaking to the truth that we are made in God’s image and likeness, we find true joy.

On November 20 and 21, 1898, Mary Baker Eddy taught her last Normal class. During that instruction, she asked each class member a pointed question: “If you were called to some one who was apparently dying, what would you do?”  Lida Stocking Stone was in attendance, listening as each student answered earnestly—but technically.

Spiritual sense cuts through the false evidence of the material senses and enables us to know God.

In the first Presidential Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, George Washington noted the request of Congress for “a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God,” and assigned November 26, 1789, “to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be. ”  Years later, Thanksgiving would become an annual tradition in the United States, with the first of these national celebrations taking place in the autumn of 1863, during the throes of the Civil War.

A grandmother helps care for her grandbaby, and puts the concepts she’s learning from a Christian Science nursing course into practice.