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Some of the innate abilities that have come to light through my Christian Science practice are getting still to listen for God’s loving guidance and then being obedient to it. That’s when I do my best.

I must confess , I have a pile of instruction manuals I rarely read hidden away in a bottom drawer in my kitchen. There are manuals for appliances and even a fish tank filter.

There’s a saying that a lie repeated a thousand times becomes truth. And studies show that people do tend to accept opinions and pseudo-facts as reliable information if they hear them often enough.

When I was in college, I went to study abroad in Paris for a year. Although it was my first time away from my country, I felt so welcomed and loved because my parents had contacted one of the Christian Science branch churches in Paris ahead of time, and a wonderful family offered to take me to Sunday School and Wednesday testimony meetings.

In a well-known Bible story, David, a shepherd boy, volunteers to fight a towering Philistine warrior named Goliath. Goliath had challenged the men of Israel to offer one of their troops to fight him, but they were all afraid to take him on.

An elastic state of thought —one in which fresh, spiritual insights are readily embraced—identifies a Christian. Also, a solid, steadfast state of consciousness is a very useful quality that identifies a Christian.

In the movie Pure Country, two men reminisce about their boyhood visit to a fair, where one of the attractions was a dancing chicken. They knew the owner of the chicken had rigged a stove to heat underneath the stage.

Years before becoming a dedicated student of Christian Science, I attended a Christian Science Sunday School. My step-father introduced my mother to Christian Science, and I was a grateful beneficiary of that blessing.

I was reading in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, though not the boundary, of the affections” (Mary Baker Eddy, p. 58 ).

Do you expect to experience healing at Christian Science church services? An early writer for the Christian Science Sentinel tells us, “Mrs. Eddy once said to a student that she longed for the day to come when no one could enter a Christian Science church, no matter how sick or how sorrowing that one might be, without being healed, and that this day can come only when every member of the church studies and demonstrates the truth contained in the Lesson-Sermon, and takes with him to the service the consciousness thus prepared” (Florence C.