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Healing through prayer is practical. It relies, like any functional system, on basic, applicable laws.

Recently I met with a university student for ten weeks as part of her class assignment to interact with a senior citizen. She shared how she loved her theology class, and I shared how I love the Bible and the book that makes it so practical— Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

The church that Mary Baker Eddy founded—The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts—and its branches around the world offer activities to those well acquainted with Christian Science and to others whose interest is entirely new. People may gather in a grand church building or in a modest hut, in the open air or in a community center.

During her final term in primary school, our daughter passed the national grade seven examinations with good points, despite interruptions throughout Zimbabwe, such as school closures, due to the pandemic.   We celebrated our daughter’s commendable academic performance, knowing that intelligence is from God and she reflects divine Mind’s intelligence—as do all of God’s children—which explained her positive results.

Standing in my kitchen , packing up some last-minute things before a big move in a couple of days, I was anxiously awaiting the delivery of a couch. It was getting dark and we lived out in the country with poor cell service.

Years ago, while working in a military hospital, I sat quietly in front of samples of blood reserves in my care to be given out in an emergency situation. Tests had been done on these samples, and the results looked fine.

Today the world is keenly aware of past wrongs. Events, conversations, photos, emails, social media posts, and text messages are being reexamined in the context of today’s social concerns.

It can feel as though there are a lot of challenges to church that weren’t there fifty or sixty years ago. Now, it’s no longer a given that most people are involved in a religious community.

In the Preface of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures , which sets forth the divine Science of Mind-healing that Jesus practiced, Mary Baker Eddy wrote, “Future ages must declare what the pioneer has accomplished” (p. vii).

It was a summer morning . I had a lot to do that day and awakened with a severe headache.