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In the remote area where I live, two days of rain were forecasted, a welcome soak for my newly planted trees. But the forecast was later updated to a nor’easter, a strong storm with high winds.

One of Jesus’ teachings that I find most difficult to obey is loving the way he asks us to love—to truly love our enemies, our neighbors, and ourselves. I often asked myself how I could possibly love someone who had committed heinous crimes against humanity.

The word selah is used over 70 times in the book of Psalms . I had always overlooked it, until I became First Reader at my branch Church of Christ, Scientist, and I began to search the Bible more deeply in preparation for the Sunday and Wednesday services.

Do you sometimes feel as if you just can’t take any more bad news? One day I realized I could see each challenge as a prayer assignment—a call for prayer—and that I should be not only willing, but happy, to answer each call. It occurred to me that when Jesus was about to ascend, he did not say to the disciples, “Well, I’m leaving.

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).

As the Christlike expression of divine Mind, we are always equipped with the ability to discern between truthful thoughts originating in God and erroneous ones that do not come from God.

What is our authentic self? How can we learn about our true identity through learning about God?

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.

Some disturbing things happened to a friend of mine when she was a child, and in early adulthood she found herself making choices that she later felt remorse about. And she wondered if those earlier traumas might be tied to some physical problems she was experiencing.

This author writes, “We can naturally see ourselves and others as pure, just as we view the purity and innocence of Love’s creatures.”