When I was around ten years old, my siblings and I had the opportunity to visit a Christian Science Sunday School. I had attended several different denominational Sunday Schools with my cousins and friends, but none taught as Christian Science does that because God is perfect, His children are perfect. Even at that young age, […]
Misery and depression lifted Read Post »
“Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10). How many times must I have repeated this line from the Lord’s Prayer throughout the many decades since I was a student in Christian Science Sunday School! Yet the significance and healing power of those words were unfolded to me in very
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After decades of civil war, South Sudan attained independence in 2011. Originally from Kenya, I did humanitarian work in South Sudan for ten years before and after its independence, and the country became my second home. At times I faced life-threatening challenges, but out of compassion for the suffering people my organization served, I stayed
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From the August 2024 issue of The Christian Science Journal In the early 1990s my family was able to bear witness to God’s unfailing care in the most trying of circumstances. I lived in Florida with my then husband and our two young children. I had been raised in Christian Science and had seen and
From the August 2024 issue of The Christian Science Journal Each day brings added proofs that God is indeed “our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble,” as the psalmist described (Psalms 46:1). This was evident last summer after I accidently deeply cut my foot on thick broken glass left outside a store
Deep cut on foot healed Read Post »
At one time or another during our growing-up years, we may have been told to be a good influence. This could have meant modeling good behavior or even gently steering someone in the right direction. This ability to produce certain effects on the behavior of others is generally thought to be dependent on our own
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There is a perennial yearning in human nature to be and do better. We might notice that we have felt this impulsion more acutely when our efforts to reach a cherished goal appear to be failing. Then, we often rethink those efforts and do things differently and more effectively. This rethinking might further broaden to
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By Lari Snorek From the August 2024 issue of The Christian Science Journal “What if everything is actually OK?” This question was arresting. Things sure didn’t feel OK. In fact, they seemed rather hopeless with no resolution in sight. But as I prayed, the question came suddenly—and stopped the spiraling. I saw new possibilities open
ADAM H. DICKEY From the January 1916 issue of The Christian Science Journal Man lives by divine decree. He is created, governed, supported, and controlled in accord with the law of God. Law means or implies a rule that is established and maintained by power; that which possesses permanence and stability; that which is unchanging,
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BERNICE HOLLY HIGGINS What does it mean to take up the cross? It means following Christ Jesus by loving God with all your heart and mind. It means striving to express the divine nature with which man, God’s idea, is endowed. To express unselfed love is to take up the cross. The basis of life
Take up the cross! Must I? Read Post »