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An author who volunteers as a Christian Science prison chaplain shares how she helped an inmate who was disruptive. She prayed for direction and shared with the inmate that he is God’s reflection, deeply valued by his divine Parent.  

An author worries that a sleepless night will prevent her from doing her job helping professional social workers. Prayer saves the day. 

Listening to ideas from God enabled this professor to publish a series of books over the course of 15 years, where he patiently prayed to know what to write and how to best help students of his academic institution. 

The Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, may not have been an institutionally educated scholar of the natural sciences, but I find her insights about the laws of nature and their applied relevance to health and human affairs to be breathtaking. Take her statement in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “Mortals must gravitate Godward, their affections and aims grow spiritual.

This author realized more of the allness of God and it healed her of back pain.

While metaphysical ideas can be very deep, they are accessible to all because they have their source in God, divine Mind, who is everywhere. Healing is available to everyone, regardless of time and space.

Christian Scientists don’t treat others metaphysically without their consent, but we can still pray generally to see the truth about God and all of His creation.

When a relative stays at a Christian Science nursing facility, she finds quick healing. 

Laura Sargent was a student in the 1884 class that Mary Baker Eddy taught in Chicago. Sargent went on to become one of Eddy’s most trusted staff members.

I didn’t grow up in a Christian Science family. But as an active member of another Protestant church whose members loved the Bible, I believed deeply in the power of prayer.