Welcome
Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes of the divine Mind, God, as “Deity, which outlines but is not outlined” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 591). There is great comfort and assurance in looking to God for His outlining of our lives, as seen in how God imparted to the prophets visions of the unspeakable good in store for all humanity.
After a rainstorm, it’s wonderful to see the sun peeking through the clouds. That, to me, is a metaphor for how it feels to experience God. In one word—joy!
As you read and “hear” the heart-to-heart ideas in this month’s offerings, we hope you feel tender encouragement, and divine Love impelling and guiding you in fulfilling your own holy purpose each moment.
We’ve all probably seen greeters when we walk into a store. Sometimes they offer to tell us about the products inside. Sometimes they just say a quiet hello if we’re making a beeline for a particular shelf. However you’d like to approach this magazine (flipping to where you want to be, or lingering with us here first), we welcome you and are grateful for you.
This year’s Annual Meeting of The Mother Church is on June 3. The editors who put together this issue of the Journal kept in mind this upcoming meeting with its theme, “Joy in the living Church.”
We learn early on that a law is only as powerful as the authority behind it. That’s a good thing to keep in mind when praying to resolve any kind of problem. As several articles in this month’s issue of the Journal explain, healing through prayer requires an understanding of where real authority lies—in God, the only true lawmaker.
April brings a special holiday here in Boston, Massachusetts—Patriots’ Day. With parades and reenactments, citizens remember the nearby battles that launched the American Revolution in 1775. Mary Baker Eddy, whose ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War, prized the religious freedom that it helped secure.
Spring and Easter, renewal and resurrection. This season always brings to thought those two key points of Christianity. New growth budding on bare branches reminds us that our opportunities to bless those around us are never truly gone, even if they seem hidden for a time.
When my children were young, we loved reading a story together about a girl who discovered little hearts falling from the sky one day. She happily gathered as many as she could. But rather than keeping them to herself, she handed them out to others.
Every article in this January issue, from “Yearning to understand the Bible” (p. 5) to “Infinite inspiration” (p. 22), along with the many testimonies of healing, nurtures our desire to be a better healer.
The resolution to do so is impelled by nothing less than God, Love itself, and nothing can prevent us from keeping it.