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Something I am continually learning more about is the blessings that come through membership in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. When one joins a branch church, it is so much more than simply signing a membership book and agreeing to support the church financially and prayerfully.

Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures asks, then answers: “What is the scientific statement of being?” ( p. 468 ).

It seems that mental health has become fragile and tenuous for many people, without lasting relief in sight. Many have come to expect a deterioration of their mental faculties with age or as the result of accident or disease.

I was recently listening to a TED Talk on the internet that featured a research scientist talking about her scientific discoveries. She introduced herself as a person who had always been curious as a child, wondering about things like how fish swim or why water freezes in the winter.

Have you ever thought deeply about the spiritual significance of communion? I must admit I never had until a recent experience made me need to better understand it. It was a difficult time for me.

Almost every time I drive by our local schools, I ask God for inspiration on praying for their students and staff. Sometimes I take one synonym for God and think about the qualities that especially relate and how they are present for everyone in the school.

When I was making the transition from being a stay-at-home mom to reentering the workforce, I prayed for God’s guidance about the right next step for me and our family. I was led to take a course to become a real estate agent, and upon passing the real estate licensing exam, I signed to work for a broker.

Someone asked me recently, “What does it take to have a Christian Science healing?” I felt that behind the question was a sincere desire to feel the transforming power of God’s love in this person’s life—in a way that restored not only spiritually but physically, too.   I have no doubt that many folks, regardless of their background, have asked themselves a similar question: “What will it take for me to feel God’s love in a tangible way?”—the way Christ Jesus felt it, lived it, and healed others by it.

Dear Reader, My heart goes out to an author who wrote in about feeling disappointed. An article submission had not been accepted, and the writer wanted to know if it was because our standards are too high, adding, “If these are our publications, then let us share our ideas with others.

A friend of mine who practiced hypnotism once told me that in order for people to become hypnotized, they must first be “induced. ” He explained that a hypnotic induction may take place voluntarily or involuntarily, slowly or in a startling instant, but whatever the method, the point is for the hypnotist to so fully grab the attention of his subject that he may then have influence over that person’s thinking.