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Communication – our direct line to God

From The Christian Science Journal - May 1, 2013

First appeared in the May 2013 issue of The Herald of Christian Science. Originally written in German.


According to Internet statistics about smartphone apps, worldwide more than ten billion messages are sent daily via the most popular smartphone app for instant messaging, called “WhatsApp” (www.winfuture.de, 8/24/2012). This shows how dominant superfast communication at any time and at any place is. 

A popular course of study at colleges nowadays, with a promising future and good perspectives, is “communication” for design, politics, the sciences, the media, and management. But do we first need to study communication to obtain useful answers? Or is there a form of communication that is much quicker, more direct, simple to practice, and always reliable? Yes! It’s our communication with God. For this, we need no cellphone and no Internet access, and we don’t depend on a modem or mobile phone network. At any time and from any place, we can directly contact our divine source. Our “hotline” to God is prayer. 

If a pupil during an exam at school would exchange SMS messages with others, this would be considered an attempt to cheat and the exam would receive a failing grade. But an SMS in the form of a prayer to God can help to open our thoughts to God’s communication of right ideas. God, as our infinite source, supplies us, as His expression, with the right inspiration, knowledge, and guidance we need. Divine Love never forsakes us or leaves us without help. 

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