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Perhaps some people think of church as a sacrifice for God, a sort of favor we do for Him in return for all the good He has done for us. But Christian Science shows us a different view.

A correct sense of cooperation is helpful in Christian healing. We cooperate with the divine power that heals by accepting right ideas—spiritual thoughts from God that reveal the allness of Spirit and the nothingness of matter.

It is a commendable and wonderful thing to be a good human being, but it is not always enough to ensure our health and happiness. Sometimes, good human beings are so mesmerized with discordant world belief that they are drawn along with it and suffer as a consequence.

Recently, I considered more deeply what Christian Science is all about— especially the reasons why Christian Scientists choose not to go to hospitals and take medicine. In the Science of Christianity we are looking for more than physical healing.

In obedience to God's command to free His people from slavery in Egypt and guide them into the Promised Land, Moses became a leader. His alarm at the assignment was a natural reaction of the human mind when it feels inadequate to carry out God's plan of action.

Are you a little shy about speaking truth to another? Do you perhaps feel that if you did try to share the good news of God's love for man, you would meet with disbelief and personal rejection? I used to feel like that. Even after I had become a student of Christian Science, for years I more or less kept it to myself.

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.