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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.

“How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand” (Psalms 139:17, 18, New International Version). Knowing that God, divine Mind, is forever communicating to us and that God’s thoughts are revelatory and unstoppable is truly liberating.

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.

As a young child , I thought my future would be problem-free. As I grew into an adult, I began to experience many situations that made me feel unprepared and naive.

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.

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 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 ).

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.

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.

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 ).