Of Good Report

A woman once remarked to the famous naturalist John Burroughs that she didn’t have any birds in her garden. Not a one.

My teenage son had been threatened by a fellow classmate and urged to engage in a fistfight after school. He hardly knew the other student, but agreed to meet him—to face him and tell him there wouldn’t be any fight.

As I prayed about the lost wallet, I realized that if divine Mind was infinite, then I included perfect intelligence. This provided me with the desire and ability to obey God’s commands, along with every single thing I would ever need.

 A temporary estrangement is healed. A family reconciles. 

I was so grateful for Science and Health’s practical guidance regarding Christian Science nursing. 

When a houseguest arranges for a tree to be pruned without this author’s permission, the results are ugly. The author prays to see the spiritual reality that no damage could be done to the friendship, or to the tree. 

I thought I was entering a metaphorical wilderness after I took early retirement, but relying on God helped me find abundance at every step.

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

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.