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Mental housecleaning requires diligence, as well as repeatedly and humbly turning to God until we are confident of the dominion of Love in any situation. In this way, we’ll walk over the waves of turmoil and gain peace. 

I was so grateful for Science and Health’s practical guidance regarding Christian Science nursing. 

When a houseguest arranges for a tree to be pruned without this author’s permission, the results are ugly. The author prays to see the spiritual reality that no damage could be done to the friendship, or to the tree. 

I thought I was entering a metaphorical wilderness after I took early retirement, but relying on God helped me find abundance at every step.

In the eight years since our daughter was born, completely new perspectives on life have opened up for my wife and me, as they probably do for many parents. Perhaps there is hardly any other event that changes someone’s outlook as deeply and permanently as the birth of a child.

The author is asked by her branch Church of Christ, Scientist, to help hold church services in a mental institution. Her prayers led her to strive to be a transparency and let God’s love shine through—to let nothing interfere with the good God had for everyone. 

Obedience to the Ten Commandments shows us the falsity of the sensual claim of pain and pleasure in matter and enables us to heal pain and find true pleasure.

Despite a bunch of returned article submissions, this author realized something that gave her hope and a sense of serving the Cause of Christian Science. The act of writing kept her prayerfully alert to the world’s needs, and in effect helped meet those needs by uplifting and healing her thought first. 

One day when I was in high school, I was protected from being caught up in a school riot. My mother was a Christian Scientist, and she prayed for my sisters and me every day.

Every bit of Science  and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy has infinite depths of inspiration and practical application, but it is always a delight to me when something that I have understood and loved at one level takes on fresh meaning, and powerful inspiration is breathed into my healing work. Countless spiritual lessons can be learned from how we interpret the world around us.