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Have you ever felt stuck trying to understand your real self as spiritual man, a concept central to healing in Christian Science? (It's astonishing how the thought of God as an old man in the sky may have long since given way to more spiritual concepts, while the idea that we are actually spiritual may often seem unreachable. ) It can be deeply comforting to get back to Genesis 1 in the Bible.

To mortal consciousness, death seems final and inevitable. This same consciousness simultaneously longs for death as a giver of freedom from problems and fears it as a cessation of existence.

Your body doesn't know how old it is. It knows nothing of calendars.

"I don't wish to go to heaven if there is a single person left in hell," I used to say when I was an adolescent and rebelled against the traditional concept of eternal damnation. The fundamental contradiction between the concept of a God of love and the cruel thought of eternal damnation was one of the things causing me such deep dissatisfaction with my childhood church that I finally left it.

We can all become scientific healers, as followers of Christ Jesus, if we earnestly desire to do so. This is not an unattainable goal.

In Jesus' parable of the tares and the wheat the question came up about the right time to pluck up the tares and destroy them. The householder's answer was, "Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

As a student of Christian Science grows in the understanding of this Science, church membership takes on a deeper meaning. Church work is no longer merely a conscientious, busy, human activity—it becomes Christian Science practice, a deep and prayerful metaphysical work that beneficially reaches all those whom one's thought embraces, including the community and the world.

Democratic government is an absolute necessity for the progress of any branch Church of Christ, Scientist. Yet many Christian Scientists live in countries with little or no democratic tradition.

When we pray in Christian Science, what are we seeking? Are we looking primarily for physical healing? A solution to a nagging problem? Or, does a deep desire to know God better impel our prayer? Healing or understanding— which is more important? The answer has a significant bearing on the results of our prayer. The incomparable demonstrations of Christ Jesus are our foremost example of what can happen when one prays effectively.

How very natural it is for those who have experienced the blessings of Christian Science to love and revere Mary Baker Eddy. We are grateful, to say the very least, for her place as Discoverer, Founder, and continuing Leader.