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The story is told of a woman who asked her adult grandson to review her finances for her. He carefully examined her papers and was happy to be able to tell her: "Grandma, you're in good shape.
Surviving in college on a very limited budget was no easy feat. Everything was competing for the same few dollars at my disposal: food, clothing, school supplies, laundry, dues, and so on.
Jesus compares the kingdom of heaven to the growth of a mustard seed in the Gospel of Matthew. This illustration also seems an apt one for the unfoldment of one's public practice of Christian Science healing.
" Whom the lord loveth he chasteneth. " Heb.
Early in her discovery of the Science of Christianity, Mary Baker Eddy asked the son of some Quaker friends if she might heal him. He had a painful bone felon on his finger.
While reading The Christian Science Journal (August 1999), I was deeply moved by a statement from a student who had attended the conference "Pioneers of the Spiritual Millennium" in Boston, Massachusetts. This young adult made a commitment to a new way of thinking: "I decided at this conference that I am going to try to make the transition from patient to a healer.
In Christian Science Primary class instruction, I was introduced to God through His attributes, the qualities that express His nature. I found them a mighty aid to understanding my true nature as God's image.
What if our most earnest efforts to find healing through prayer seem to get nowhere, or our healings tend to take a long time? In my experience of applying the teachings of Christian Science, I've found that one of the reasons may be that the spiritual reality of perfect God and of our own perfection as His child—which underlies healing—still doesn't seem very real to us. But this can change.
There's no question that Christ Jesus held up a very high moral standard for humanity. It includes undeviating obedience to the Ten Commandments—not only in conduct but in thought.
Lost in the wilderness —that was how I felt. Maybe you've felt this way, too.