Articles

Looking to be a better healer? Then you’ll want to keep an eye out for articles like this one, appearing periodically in the Journal,  the Christian Science Sentinel,  and The Herald of Christian Science.  Their aim: to correct some of the misconceptions about Christian Science that would keep us from having the results we so desire.

Years ago, I’d been quite upset at work. There had been a change in management and I wasn’t happy with how our work was being handled.

It was a light wind day,    the breeze as lazy as a cat curled in a spot of sun.   “Trial Island?” coach asked.

It was the morning after Christmas, Boxing Day. I had studied the Bible Lesson from the Christian Science Quarterly, which was on the subject of “God.

As a fairly new member of a Christian Science branch church years ago, I was happy to be elected to serve on its Board of Trustees—my first opportunity to fill a church board position. What I didn’t know was that the membership was bitterly divided over whether to keep or sell the church edifice, and that board work would be contentious and stressful.

Some years ago I came to understand, in a tangible way, the meaning of this quote from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: “Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need” ( p. 494 ).

“Belief in a material basis, from which may be deduced all rationality, is slowly yielding to the idea of a metaphysical basis, looking away from matter to Mind as the cause of every effect. Materialistic hypotheses challenge metaphysics to meet in final combat.

With her characteristic spiritual insight, the Leader of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, teaches that the mortal self, or personality, is responsible for our troubles. And she points to the solution by stating: “To impersonalize scientifically the material sense of existence—rather than cling to personality—is the lesson of to-day” ( Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, p.

These three words, “Thy kingdom come” ( Matthew 6:10 ), given to us by Christ Jesus in the Lord’s Prayer, are an invitation to let God, not human will, govern our thoughts and actions day by day. Jesus made clear our need to do this at the beginning of his ministry when he said, “Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” ( Matthew 4:17 ).

Last year, our daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren were spending a holiday weekend with my wife and me. After enjoying some time outdoors, my daughter and I had just started up the exterior stairs when we heard disturbingly loud cracking sounds.