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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. 

In the 1920s, my parents were vacationing with my two sisters and me in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York. They were looking for a place to spend the night and saw a sign for a guesthouse, where they decided to stay.

A Christian Scientist who was on the bullet train to Kyoto, Japan, shares how she prayed when she lost sight of her sister. She learns that God’s help is faster than a bullet train. 

An avid pickleball player shares how she prayed after she sees an opponent experience an injury on the court. 

Entering the “sanctuary of Spirit” before studying the Christian Science Bible Lesson, we shut out distractions and pressures and open our hearts to God’s healing messages of Truth and Love. Our time with the Lesson is holy.

What does grace mean to you? And what does grace mean in the study and practice of Christian Science?

Feeling the sublimity of sunlight rising over the ocean one morning, I watched its radiance. Just as dawn’s light eventually fills the sky, God illumines our lives, bringing freedom and healing in glorious ways.

One of the Bible’s most well-known imperatives (appearing throughout the Scriptures) is, “Be not afraid!” Initially, the phrase can seem comforting. But in my experience, it has often quickly caused me to ask, “How do I ‘be not afraid’ when I am afraid in this frightening moment?”  Yet being unafraid is exactly what is needed at such times.

One of the most familiar biblical descriptions of God is “God is Love. ” Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says that Love, as a synonym for God, “imparts the clearest idea of Deity” ( Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.