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Can we? Yes—it’s wonderfully true.

Keith Wommack

Whether we are desiring to lay aside shyness, pain, frustration, brokenness, lack, or any other limitation, we can turn to our divine Father-Mother in prayer, and allow His angels to lead us out of limited, materialistic thought patterns, which seem to be fertile ground for difficulties.
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Enriching the affections

Elizabeth Beall

We can pray to know that humanity can gain a fuller understanding of God’s love and experience His all-embracing care. This is a prayer that reaches out to touch the receptive heart and help fulfill mankind’s spiritual yearnings.
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To vote

Carol Dismore

I ask in prayer how I should vote—
   which candidate is best?
The answer puzzles me ...
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A secure home

Kate Mullane Robertson

At a time when many children and their families around the world are being kept on the move, nothing could be more important than a feeling of belonging and a spiritual sense of home based on our oneness with God, Spirit. This oneness is our divine and permanent home.
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Are we helpless in the face of extreme weather?

Judy Wolff

The fear of the political fallout and the storm’s destruction needed to be offset by the understanding of divine Love’s calming, healing presence and supremacy.
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When I wanted to stand up to the principal

Heidi Kleinsmith Salter

When this student was ready to stand up to authority because she saw injustice happening at her high school, she turned to prayer to discover the best way of doing that.
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Finding my way back to Christian Science

Avery Stewart

Christian Science just wasn’t resonating for this teen, but when things got really tough with friend and boyfriend problems and an injury on the job, she realized it did hold the answers she was looking for.
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This book healed me: Leaving it all to God

With Laura Lapointe, Colby Howe, and Heidi Salter

Can we trust God with anything? Everything? What does the Bible say? This week, in continuation of our series, we speak to three guests who, from reading the Bible, have learned important lessons about turning to God and leaving it all to Him.
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It has to be Love

Kit Cornell Kurtz

If we look 
   and think we see 
   chaos’s fragments 
      or hate’s clutter 
         swirling like a sandstorm
            —blinding— 
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Watching grass grow

Carlos A. Machado

Next to my work window , a big patch of lawn had a big dip in it earlier this year.
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Prayer for global issue leads to physical healing

Dan Ziskind

When I next visited a dentist, I didn’t say anything to him about the issue I’d had, and he didn’t report any problem areas. And the tooth has remained normal.
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Upright and free

Elisabeth Seaman

Knowing that God is the only authority I need to consult about my welfare keeps me on track in understanding who I truly am as God’s beloved child and that only God’s loving care has an impact on me.
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Torn ligament healed

José Mario Fariña

Within a short time, I was able to walk without difficulty and even run! And I returned to playing soccer.
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Adam and Fallen Man

November 4–10, 2024

God’s image is shown to express His essential nature, identified in the New Testament as Spirit.
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Letters & Conversations

Portia Jones, Dan Haffke, Pedro Tagliavini, Samantha Vance

Finding the truth about who you, and all others, are puts each of us on a wonderful pathway of peace, love, and divine harmony.
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What are we assuming?

Lisa Rennie Sytsma

Our job is to listen for Christ’s voice pointing out, not just wrong thoughts we may be indulging, but the assumptions underlying those thoughts.
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Climate and God’s changeless love

Scott Jenkins

A fearful thought came: “You are out of time; the tornado is almost here!” But a soft presence embraced my heart with a conviction that time and space are nothing in the universe of Spirit, God.
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O Lord[,] in the morning will
I direct my prayer unto thee,
and will look up.

—Psalms 5:3
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When singing a hymn calmed the storm

Mark Catlin

In the chaos of a dark, frightening night, I needed to take to heart what the Apostle Paul understood—that “we live, and move, and have our being” in God (Acts 17:28).
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My search for truth

Hernando Pico Niño

I became acquainted with Christian Science more than twenty years ago in my native Colombia.
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Politics and finding peace

Martin Vesely

When we also come to understand God as Spirit, and His creation as purely spiritual rather than tribal or political, it becomes much easier to not only love God supremely but to love all of our neighbors as ourselves.
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Finding my way back to Christian Science

Avery Stewart

Christian Science just wasn’t resonating for this teen, but when things got really tough with friend and boyfriend problems and an injury on the job, she realized it did hold the answers she was looking for.
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This book healed me: Leaving it all to God

With Laura Lapointe, Colby Howe, and Heidi Salter

Can we trust God with anything? Everything? What does the Bible say? This week, in continuation of our series, we speak to three guests who, from reading the Bible, have learned important lessons about turning to God and leaving it all to Him.
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It has to be Love

Kit Cornell Kurtz

If we look 
   and think we see 
   chaos’s fragments 
      or hate’s clutter 
         swirling like a sandstorm
            —blinding— 
we can remember …
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Watching grass grow

Carlos A. Machado

Next to my work window , a big patch of lawn had a big dip in it earlier this year.
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Samuel listens to God

Gabriella Horbaty-Byrd

Samuel listened to God while he continued looking for his mom and brother.
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Testimony of Healing

Misery and depression lifted

Sharron Lane Boyd

On the street corner I was surprised to see a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. I immediately thought, “That is where I can be healed.”
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Freed from leg pain

Ana Paula Carrubba

It has been reassuring to ponder the fact that nothing can stop us from progressing.
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Cut healed instantly

Susan Huffman

If we have had an accident that resulted from our own mistake or bad judgment, that’s no reason to believe that we can’t find healing through Christian Science. 
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A spiritual approach to peacemaking

Gretchen Newby

I thought peacemaking meant 
Defusing conflict 
Mediating disagreements 
Smoothing ruffled feathers 
Restoring broken relationships ...
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Mortals and Immortals

November 11–17, 2024

James stresses the immense power of sincere prayer to God. 
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Farida Grewal, Gretchen Roberts, Suzanne Riedel

What a fabulously helpful article, beautifully written and read.
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The Bible’s message: Worth fighting about or fighting for?

Scott Preller

We can read the Bible to experience firsthand the power of God that is being revealed to us through God’s love for us. This makes the Bible a friend and guide.
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Do we have to feel offended?

Jay Frost

There was a spiritual lesson in this: The effects we may feel from another’s wrong behavior (inadvertent or intentional) have more to do with our reaction than with the incident itself.
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Humble servant

Wendy Mulhern

I go forth
humble
and delighted
and exuberant
to be ...
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Live in “the reliable now”

Carol Coykendall Caspary Raner

When I do serve God in the now, I find my “retirement” days are quite full. The reward for being in the present is having lots of energy to do more. 
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How the book of Revelation guides us

Clay Kaufman

We can heal challenges to our health and happiness through recognizing ourselves as the pure, reflection of God, Spirit, dispersing the mistaken beliefs that would obscure our true nature.
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Remembering the salt

Sue Holzberlein

When I prayed asking what I needed to know in relation to the memory lapses, God’s answer was, “Just listen.”
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Finding my way back to Christian Science

Avery Stewart

Christian Science just wasn’t resonating for this teen, but when things got really tough with friend and boyfriend problems and an injury on the job, she realized it did hold the answers she was looking for.
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This book healed me: Leaving it all to God

With Laura Lapointe, Colby Howe, and Heidi Salter

Can we trust God with anything? Everything? What does the Bible say? This week, in continuation of our series, we speak to three guests who, from reading the Bible, have learned important lessons about turning to God and leaving it all to Him.
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It has to be Love

Kit Cornell Kurtz

If we look 
   and think we see 
   chaos’s fragments 
      or hate’s clutter 
         swirling like a sandstorm
            —blinding— 
we can remember …
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Watching grass grow

Carlos A. Machado

Next to my work window , a big patch of lawn had a big dip in it earlier this year.
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I always have God to turn to

Noelle

As soon as I reached out to God and asked for His help, the bleeding stopped.
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Leading thought to Spirit heals pain

Waltraud Lehmann

I just needed to know that God had already made me perfect. I found I could be infinitely grateful for this fact and trust Him with my whole heart.
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No further trouble from toothaches or cavities

Heiko Knostmann

I am grateful for Christian Science and its healing results, dissolving long-standing issues. What a blessing.
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Healed after fall from horse

Laurie Appleby

No matter what we are facing, understanding the ever-presence of divine Love is the antidote.
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Doctrine of Atonement

October 14–20, 2024

Israelites understood God to be invisible, but they expected and praised evidence of His nearness.
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Natalie Coleridge, Mary Bistline, Robin Krauss

Wow! What a wonderful example of obedience to God—meeting every need and, in this case, blessing many others as well.
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The value of deep roots

Robin Hoagland

When we’re confronted with any form of turmoil—the swirling winds of politics, an economic drought, or a debilitating event or illness—a single tree can remind us of what we need, not just to endure but to thrive.
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The door is unlocked

Kit Kurtz

Jesus said that the kingdom of God is within each of us. We have free access to heavenly pastures. 
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Image and Inspiration

Man is by no means a material germ rising from the imperfect and endeavoring to reach Spirit above his origin. The stream rises no higher than its source.
—Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.246
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Overcoming deception

Roni Britton

Regardless of what appears real to the physical senses, the truth is that all that is real is God and the spiritual and perfect universe of His creating.
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Seeking spiritual wisdom over human advice

John Qualtrough

If we are seeking guidance, we want to turn our thoughts toward God and gain a spiritual perspective on life.
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Healed of anorexia

Name Withheld

I realized that I had been hoping my body would tell me who I am or confirm something about my identity. But this hope was empty from the outset because we are made in God’s image.
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Finding my way back to Christian Science

Avery Stewart

Christian Science just wasn’t resonating for this teen, but when things got really tough with friend and boyfriend problems and an injury on the job, she realized it did hold the answers she was looking for.
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This book healed me: Leaving it all to God

With Laura Lapointe, Colby Howe, and Heidi Salter

Can we trust God with anything? Everything? What does the Bible say? This week, in continuation of our series, we speak to three guests who, from reading the Bible, have learned important lessons about turning to God and leaving it all to Him.
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It has to be Love

Kit Cornell Kurtz

If we look 
   and think we see 
   chaos’s fragments 
      or hate’s clutter 
         swirling like a sandstorm
            —blinding— 
we can remember …
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Watching grass grow

Carlos A. Machado

Next to my work window , a big patch of lawn had a big dip in it earlier this year.
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No more panic attacks

Susan Bonner

With tears of gratitude running down my cheeks, I thanked God for His infinite beauty. And in that instant, I inwardly heard these words: “You have reached the summit.” I knew I was fully healed.
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Healing before choir concert

Jaska Alanko

I understood that my whole being was, and had always been, totally spiritual. Nothing could compromise my status as the perfect reflection of the one perfect God. Within a short time, I was relieved of the flu symptoms, and my voice returned.
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Head injury healed

Nilda Maria Alves

I continued to be steadfast in prayer, and after three days there was no longer any evidence of injury, including no scar.
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Probation After Death

October 21–27, 2024

Throughout his career, Jesus identifies himself with light.
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Phyllis Feldman, Cheryl Brown Lohse, Ginny Nilsen, Lorraine Mahon

Such gratitude to the author for sharing this beautiful, inspiring, and comforting poem.
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Loving our true self

Larissa Snorek

The better we understand God, the better we see our true self—not in terms of human personality traits, but as the offspring of God. This keeps us from engaging in chronic self-improvement or self-criticism. 
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Praying for government offices

Lynn G. Jackson

Our prayers for the offices of government can help uphold the office, its purpose, and the spiritual qualities necessary to sustain it. And this naturally blesses.
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No longer inflamed

Elsa Dardie S. Dunlap

Fever-pitched? 
Feel the cool balm of 
the ever-presence of God, good, 
     quelling the terror, the inflamed thought—
the sweet assurance that ...
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How God empowers athletes

Thomas Fuller

I could feel my thought shifting, looking to omnipotent Spirit as the single source of strength.
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Discard the label

Name Withheld

I felt united with all God’s spiritual ideas, free of material identities or labels. It occurred to me that this is what I most needed and wanted.
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God helped me when I met a bear

Joan Ware

Thoughts from God are right there for us, even before we ask! 
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Finding my way back to Christian Science

Avery Stewart

Christian Science just wasn’t resonating for this teen, but when things got really tough with friend and boyfriend problems and an injury on the job, she realized it did hold the answers she was looking for.
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This book healed me: Leaving it all to God

With Laura Lapointe, Colby Howe, and Heidi Salter

Can we trust God with anything? Everything? What does the Bible say? This week, in continuation of our series, we speak to three guests who, from reading the Bible, have learned important lessons about turning to God and leaving it all to Him.
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It has to be Love

Kit Cornell Kurtz

If we look 
   and think we see 
   chaos’s fragments 
      or hate’s clutter 
         swirling like a sandstorm
            —blinding— 
we can remember …
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Watching grass grow

Carlos A. Machado

Next to my work window , a big patch of lawn had a big dip in it earlier this year.
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Healed step by step

Jack Kavanagh

I felt divinely led to keep my mind open about my next hiking adventure. This required a big leap of faith in God.
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No more carpal tunnel syndrome

Daisy Patricia Izquierdo Ortiz

The healing came about naturally within two weeks of starting Christian Science treatment.
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Sudden illness overcome

Isaac Otieno

I became more faithful and receptive to divine Truth and Love, trusting in God’s perfect care. 
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Everlasting Punishment

October 28–November 3, 2024

In the New Testament, righteousness signifies more than being right legally or ethically; it signals a right relationship to God, expressed in Christly thought and behavior.
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Cheryl Lohse, Kathryn Price, Rick Beatty

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