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This contributor has found freedom, joy, and health, including a harmonious childbirth and a healing of asthma for her daughter, through her study of Christian Science, which reveals the allness of God, good.

Willingness to move out of her comfort zone geographically and praying to know her purpose led this author to discover the spiritual and practical rewards of Christian Science nursing.

Spiritual sense cuts through the false evidence of the material senses and enables us to know God.

When a rowdy group of teenage boys trespass repeatedly on his property, this author knows he needs to get to work to see them as God’s children. 

How we can pray to see the powerlessness of the “Herod-thought”—the mental resistance to God’s law of peace and harmony.

Home is a spiritual idea from God, so it is always part of our experience. Praying with this thought, the author was able to sell her home, which met the buyers’ needs, and move into a new home that met her needs.

By following Christ Jesus’ example and awaking to the truth that we are made in God’s image and likeness, we find true joy.

On November 20 and 21, 1898, Mary Baker Eddy taught her last Normal class. During that instruction, she asked each class member a pointed question: “If you were called to some one who was apparently dying, what would you do?”  Lida Stocking Stone was in attendance, listening as each student answered earnestly—but technically.

In the first Presidential Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, George Washington noted the request of Congress for “a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God,” and assigned November 26, 1789, “to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be. ”  Years later, Thanksgiving would become an annual tradition in the United States, with the first of these national celebrations taking place in the autumn of 1863, during the throes of the Civil War.

A school issue was resolved after this author prayed.