Spiritual Shorts

Prepare for a victory celebration—with prayer.

Mary Baker Eddy uses the word pressure only once in her published writings, referring to the command to separate ourselves from worldliness, and there is no other legitimate pressure on us.

The ideas in the ninety-first Psalm are readily available to pray with to help us find protection and safety.

Sunlight on a flower brought a spiritual lesson about how we, like the flower, can live in harmony with nature, always unharmed.

By understanding God as everyone’s Father-Mother, we can naturally trust our loved ones to God’s perfect care.

Experiences in Christian Science nursing helped this author see the practicality of “knock, and it shall be opened unto you,” as she found that by pausing and waiting on God, she had the answers she needed.

Listening to songs from the Christian Science Hymnal: Hymns 430–603 helped this toddler overcome his fear of nightmares. He understood that God is Love and that He is showering on him “tender mercies.”

The Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, may not have been an institutionally educated scholar of the natural sciences, but I find her insights about the laws of nature and their applied relevance to health and human affairs to be breathtaking. Take her statement in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “Mortals must gravitate Godward, their affections and aims grow spiritual.

Recently when I was serving in my local Christian Science Reading Room, I was unenthusiastically working on a task that needed to be completed that day. And there was an additional task I knew I should do, but that I could put off.

The senses present material discords to us as facts, but if something is not good, it is not of God, Truth, and therefore is not factual at all.