Welcome
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.
Whether you’re reading this Journal sitting in a crowded subway car or quietly at home, or listening to it while driving alongside the ocean or looking out at a bustling town square—wherever you find yourself exploring this month’s issue—the light of spiritual Truth, Christ, is present to illumine your way.
Far beyond a slogan on a mug, “Grateful!” is less about what we should be and more of a reminder about what we naturally feel when we know God. Turn the page and enjoy this promise.
“Are we there yet?” That familiar strain from kids in the back of the car—sometimes within minutes of leaving home—could have a deeper resonance for those reading this issue of the Journal.
As you explore this issue of the Journal, we hope that the ideas shared by readers like you shall bring inspiration, transformation, and healing.
The Journal’s founder, Mary Baker Eddy, once stated her life-mission this way: “The lame, the deaf, the dumb, the blind, the sick, the sensual, the sinner, I wished to save from the slavery of their own beliefs. . .” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 226).
A warm welcome to The Christian Science Journal! Whether this is your first visit or you’ve stopped counting the times you’ve entered into these pages, we’re so grateful to share this compilation from spiritually scientific thinkers, healers, and those healed around the world.