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There are many times when we wonder if we have enough to do what’s required of us. Will we have enough patience to appropriately care for our children? Will we have enough skill and talent to complete a challenging job? Will we have enough courage to stand up to injustice? Will we have enough spiritual understanding to experience healing?   Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, recognized the practical power of Truth—a name for God—to provide enough good.

At some point in our lives, even if we have successfully relied on Christian Science for our health needs, we may question whether there are degrees of sickness and disease, if one disease is more “life-threatening” than another, or if one is more difficult to heal than another. The answers to these questions may be found by looking at the innumerable healings performed by the Master; by the early Christians; by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science; and by Christian Scientists for the last 150 years.

Working in local government in my homeland, New Zealand, I came face to face with the inequitable way in which First Nations people had been treated. Since then, I have often thought of the many past injustices in the world that keep bubbling up to the surface in one form or another with righteous demands that they be rectified.

Dear Church Members and Friends , We are so delighted to invite you to join us in person in Boston or online this year for Annual Meeting 2022, to be held Monday, June 6. While looking back on the year, many might be tempted to focus only on the trials we’ve faced, but as a Church devoted to healing, we are able to see elements of progress for humanity—for individuals as well as communities.

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In the seventh chapter of Luke in the Bible, Christ Jesus compassionately healed a widow’s grief by restoring her only son to life, near the gate of the city Nain (see verses 11–16 ). In the culture of the time, women relied upon male relatives for their social and economic well-being, and widows could be left destitute without this support.

I sat on a bench outside, absolutely shattered by what I had just heard.   A young man I had unexpectedly met informed me that his grandparents had been among the rebel forces that had killed my younger sibling more than fifty years earlier, destroyed my childhood home, and devastated our lives.

We don’t have to look far to see that there is an urgent need for justice in our world; a justice that includes every individual and leaves no one struggling on the outside. The needs of today are pushing us to search deeply for what true impartiality, fairness, and equality mean.

A researcher at the Dolphin Research Center in Florida said that when a storm blows in, they open the underwater gate from the bay to the ocean for the dolphins to swim out into the deep water so they won’t get dashed against the rocks by the waves. Below the surging waves, it can actually be quite calm.

During the past couple of years, the vulnerability of the body to disease has been at the forefront of world thought, and the need for more dependable, consistent healing has become clear. The limitations of treating man as an organic machine that can be fixed with drugs or surgery have been very apparent.