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Original in French, this article appeared in the December 2014 French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish editions of The Herald of Christian Science.
As I was looking for a book in my bookcase, I was drawn to open one that was very popular a few years ago featuring pictures called “stereograms.” A stereogram is a 3D picture that has a form, such as a butterfly or a flower, hidden inside a pattern.
Seeing everyone we encounter as God’s idea brings blessings and healing.
Applying truths from the weekly Bible Lesson brings protection and healing no matter where we are in the world.
This author shares how expressing gratitude at any time of the year results in healing.
This author discovered that holding to the truth of scientific being for all her students healed a divisive classroom situation.
Originally in German this article first appeared in the November 2014 French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish editions of The Herald of Christian Science.
With many crossings over the border into the eastern sector of Berlin, I was confronted with the necessity and, at the same time, the opportunity to correct false views—on both sides of the border.
Originally in French, this article appeared in the November 2014 French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish editions of The Herald of Christian Science.
When one considers history between 1989 and 1991, the fall of the Berlin Wall certainly offers the strongest symbolic significance among other important events connected with freedom, such as the breakup of the USSR and the abolition of apartheid in South Africa. All these events remind me of the way Paul and Silas, who had been unjustly imprisoned, found their freedom: “At midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God … And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed” ( Acts 16:25, 26 ).
Originally in Spanish, this article appeared in the November 2014 French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish editions of The Herald of Christian Science.
Adapted from the Spanish radio program of El Heraldo de la Ciencia Cristiana, “La base de la oración” [The basis of prayer].
When my oldest daughter was a child, we lived in El Prado, a very nice area of the city. She loved to go biking with her friend.
Originally in German, this article appeared in the November 2014 French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish editions of The Herald of Christian Science.
Do you know people who are experts in tearing down a wall? I´m not talking about construction workers who, equipped with hammer, pickaxe, and shovel, remove stones. Although their work is important, I’m talking about a different kind of worker: people who are removing mental obstacles through their pure and determined thinking and their clear conviction that each man, child, and woman, as God´s beloved child, is destined to be free.
Originally in French, this article appeared in the November 2014 French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish editions of The Herald of Christian Science.
It was 1997. I woke up one morning with a strong pain in my stomach.