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How reassuring it is when we gain the conviction that heartfelt prayer to God is heard! This conviction, I have concluded, is related to the direction in which we believe we are traveling. We need to determine whether man is a mortal, separated from God, trying to find his way back to Him; or whether he is, without interruption, God's spiritual outcome.

In the biblical account that symbolizes God's spiritual creation we are told that God created everything in six days— finished it and saw that it was very good. On the seventh day He "rested.

Have you ever felt yourself a victim of another's thoughtless act? Or perhaps have you yourself unintentionally injured someone? Having given or taken offense, you no doubt were sorry afterward. Why, then, did it happen? There is no real reason for senseless acts or thoughtless behavior.

Each of us is a teacher in the broadest sense of the word. We set an example for others by our own life practice.

Mankind's crying need for freedom from enslavement of every sort has never been more pressing. Accordingly, it is of primary importance to understand the liberating nature of divine Love.

Did you ever stop to think about Christ Jesus' total commitment to spiritual identification? His answer to questions posed to him revealed his conscious oneness with God. He said: "The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand"; "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work"; "The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

When most of us think of balance, we're inclined to think of the balance needed to walk a tightrope, or the balance of equal weights on a scale, or the balance of power among nations. While this sense of balance takes into account opposing forces, another kind of balance is essential to healing the sick, reforming the sinner, and establishing harmony in human experience.

One of the most profound discoveries of Mary Baker Eddy, the Founder of Christian Science, is the unreality of evil. As the power, presence, and reality—the allness—of God, good, became more and more obvious to her, she saw that any opposite to God is an impossibility.

Success in our practice of Christian Science depends largely on our certainty that it is absolute truth. How do we gain this certainty, an assurance that's exempt from all doubt? Through the recognition that we are studying and practicing an infallible, divine Science.

Through our individual practice of Christian Science we learn the value of prayerfully considering what is really being demanded of us under every circumstance. Jesus' entire earthly experience exemplified his own words, "Not my will, but thine, be done.