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In seeing that we can have only the identity God made, we recognize that the resistance to spiritual growth calling itself distractedness is nothing more than an imposition on us.
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Keeping calm in the midst of conflict allows us to listen for the voice of divine Truth and Love. This peaceful utterance reassures us, no matter what someone else says or does, that the essential goodness of our identity continues undisturbed and untouched. 
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Single mom

The truth is that God’s creation is never on its own.
Through Love and its abundance
we conquer any sense of lack
or false responsibilities …
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Prayer is like feeding a bird

With stillness, patience, and presence, I am not missing anything. I am meeting new insights that arrive on the wings of inspiration. I experience fresh hope, and welcome with an open heart the healing ideas that bring mental and physical transformation.
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Truth still sets free

It may seem that technology, which is so often helpful in improving our lives but can also be used for criminal and hurtful purposes, far outstrips Jesus’ methods. But, in fact, the truth that Jesus preached and practiced is still fully effective in this age.
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I decided that if I was going to let something determine my identity, I needed to feel completely good about it. Astrology didn’t give me that. So I knew there had to be another way. 
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Of course God will heal me

This week’s guest, Beth Packer, is certain that God will heal every ailment. Why? She’s experienced and witnessed healing. She’s learned through her study of Christian Science that God, who is Truth, is an ever-present, reliable, and healing power.
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Christian Science is not about the words or symbols ...
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My prayers for peace

When my husband was part of an international peacekeeping force away from home, I learned to entrust his safety, as well as mine and our children’s, to God. 
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Trusting God with track season

This athlete wanted to perform well—for herself and for her track team. But when the stress got to be too much, she knew she needed a change of mind-set. And that started with God.
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Testimony of Healing

Effects of accident healed

Later that day, my hearing was completely normal, and I noticed that the pain in my head and neck was gone, too.
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Instantly free from cold symptoms

Holding to these solid and clear spiritual ideas, I finished my painting. All signs of the cold disappeared. Nothing of the condition lingered.
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God’s unfailing care on a hike

My daughter asked if I realized how steep the descent had been and that there had been no apparent reason for my fall to stop.
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Bible Lens

Matter

Moving or reducing mountains was an ancient image for overcoming great difficulties or obstacles.
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The ever-present hope of Easter

Christ is forever risen, is here. Let it lift you, too—and enable you to follow.
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When I see Jesus’ teachings, deeds, and resurrection as based on the divine universal Principle of all being, it gives me hope—the hope that every person can be moved to let the belief that existence is material yield to the understanding of Life as spiritual and eternal.
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The profoundly beautiful promise of this Christly oil is that it is here for everyone. It is not reserved for a physical ritual anointing royalty or religious officials. The oil of anointing is plentiful and present every moment to destroy whatever yoke seems to be binding us.
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I didn’t want to be lukewarm in my devotion to God. This shifted church attendance for me from a duty to a desire.
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For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.Isaiah 61:11
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Kids

Easter every day

A poem to celebrate Easter!
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Of course God will heal me

This week’s guest, Beth Packer, is certain that God will heal every ailment. Why? She’s experienced and witnessed healing. She’s learned through her study of Christian Science that God, who is Truth, is an ever-present, reliable, and healing power.
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Poem
Christian Science is not about the words or symbols ...
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Article

My prayers for peace

When my husband was part of an international peacekeeping force away from home, I learned to entrust his safety, as well as mine and our children’s, to God. 
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TeenConnect: Your Healings

Trusting God with track season

This athlete wanted to perform well—for herself and for her track team. But when the stress got to be too much, she knew she needed a change of mind-set. And that started with God.
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Testimony of Healing
I knew that God, divine Mind, would always be with me, right where I was, knowing everything real about me.
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Testimony of Healing

Moving freely again

The healing came steadily. One Sunday I was able to drive to church and walk in. 
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Testimony of Healing
I realized I again had full use of both arms. I knew I was healed, and I rejoiced. Shortly after this, the legal issue was resolved harmoniously in an unexpected way, to the benefit of all.
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Reality

“Peace with God” points to reconciliation—an end to feeling hostile to or separate from God.
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No matter what the problem is, with God’s help, there’s nothing we can’t handle.
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Ageless living

You and I can live our ageless being as God’s perfect, spiritual reflection today and every day. And in doing so, we can overcome every belief in limitation that is claiming reality and the ability to govern us.
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Spirit’s fabric

We are woven in,
            not added to,
            not a darned-on afterthought,
                        but …
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No sooner had I settled into the new job than I was confronted with yet another offensive personality. I began to realize that I needed to look more deeply into this issue from a metaphysical basis. 
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A man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. . . . And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
Isaiah 32:2, 18 
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The events that followed that single interchange with our son would have seemed miraculous, even unbelievable, to me if I didn’t know that they were God-directed. 
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Of course God will heal me

This week’s guest, Beth Packer, is certain that God will heal every ailment. Why? She’s experienced and witnessed healing. She’s learned through her study of Christian Science that God, who is Truth, is an ever-present, reliable, and healing power.
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Poem
Christian Science is not about the words or symbols ...
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My prayers for peace

When my husband was part of an international peacekeeping force away from home, I learned to entrust his safety, as well as mine and our children’s, to God. 
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TeenConnect: Your Healings

Trusting God with track season

This athlete wanted to perform well—for herself and for her track team. But when the stress got to be too much, she knew she needed a change of mind-set. And that started with God.
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TeenConnect: Your Healings

The perfect fit

While we can always discover more about who we are, there’s nothing we need to add to our identity and nothing that can ever be taken away from it. 
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Testimony of Healing

Eczema gone

One day, after reading Science and Health for a few months, I looked down at my arms and discovered that there was absolutely no sign of the eczema.
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Testimony of Healing
Through my study of Christian Science, I gained a better understanding that I did not exist separate from God.
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Testimony of Healing

Grief overcome

I was overcome with so much love and gratitude for this reminder that my mom and I are both held in God’s loving care. 
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Bible Lens

Mind

To be stayed on God indicates unwavering faithfulness to Him.
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Let Love shape your view

Turning our thought to God, we gain an understanding of the power of divine, all-pervasive Love. And we begin to think and act from a foundation of compassion and pure affection toward ourselves and others.
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Be a victor

A Christian disciple challenges evil and conquers it by following Jesus’ loving example.
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Letting Mind, God, govern the focus of our attention is natural. 
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Poem
It doesn’t start with a letter A to Z.
It began with your anointing …
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Unanswered prayer?

In prayer, are we honestly listening for God’s answer or simply looking for the answer we want? Are we willing to heed the answer even when it isn’t what we wanted?
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Life’s questions

 Asking the right questions sheds light on the real answers. 
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Of course God will heal me

This week’s guest, Beth Packer, is certain that God will heal every ailment. Why? She’s experienced and witnessed healing. She’s learned through her study of Christian Science that God, who is Truth, is an ever-present, reliable, and healing power.
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Poem
Christian Science is not about the words or symbols ...
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Article

My prayers for peace

When my husband was part of an international peacekeeping force away from home, I learned to entrust his safety, as well as mine and our children’s, to God. 
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TeenConnect: Your Healings

Trusting God with track season

This athlete wanted to perform well—for herself and for her track team. But when the stress got to be too much, she knew she needed a change of mind-set. And that started with God.
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Dogs can’t be bad, because they’re God’s creatures, and God is only good.
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Testimony of Healing
I continued to focus on eliminating anxious thinking through the love of God—both God’s love for me and my love for God—and trust in Her government.
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Testimony of Healing
I reasoned that since God is perfect, eternal, and changeless, my perfection as God’s creation also has to be continuous and changeless.
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Testimony of Healing

No more coughing spells

I am used to healing difficulties through prayer, which requires changing my thinking rather than changing something physical.
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Bible Lens

Christ Jesus

Jesus affirms that because God is Spirit, true worship must be spiritual, unconfined by geographical location.
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I consciously yielded my fear to the conviction of God’s unwavering presence and affection. The fear was completely gone in minutes.
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Learning to float

As I let my understanding be upheld by divine Love, the answer came: I was not the one who was responsible; God was. Immediately I relaxed. I waited, trusted, “floated.”
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Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? . . . If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.Psalms 139:7, 9, 10
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I had been trying to “apply” spiritual truths to improve whatever needed improving. What I truly needed was to accept (really accept) the Bible’s revelation that life, substance, and intelligence are in and of God, Spirit—and that everyone’s real individuality is entirely spiritual.
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Once my husband and I had two boys and one girl, I figured all I had to do was go ahead and have that second girl. Sound a little willful?
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TeenConnect: Your Healings

How can I feel motivated?

He was behind on his work and stressed about his grades. How did this high school student turn his academics around? Read on.
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Of course God will heal me

This week’s guest, Beth Packer, is certain that God will heal every ailment. Why? She’s experienced and witnessed healing. She’s learned through her study of Christian Science that God, who is Truth, is an ever-present, reliable, and healing power.
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Poem
Christian Science is not about the words or symbols ...
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Article

My prayers for peace

When my husband was part of an international peacekeeping force away from home, I learned to entrust his safety, as well as mine and our children’s, to God. 
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TeenConnect: Your Healings

Trusting God with track season

This athlete wanted to perform well—for herself and for her track team. But when the stress got to be too much, she knew she needed a change of mind-set. And that started with God.
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Testimony of Healing
The teacher told me about our son’s improved eyesight and that there was also a lot of improvement with his handwriting and reading.
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Testimony of Healing

Tooth pain gone

Knowing the truth is not a process or formula we use to get rid of something. It simply means acknowledging, and staying with, what is spiritually true.
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Testimony of Healing
The fear of losing my faithful dog was overwhelming, and at first I didn’t know what to pray. However, I obeyed that still, small voice and trusted God to quiet my fear.
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Man

Jesus introduces eternal life as present, found in a spiritual understanding of God.
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And who is my neighbor?

How big is our circle? Does it reflect God’s inclusive love for all?
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The reason that God doesn’t step into a physical world and fix things is that it’s not needed. Christian Science teaches that God and God’s manifestation—including each of us—are the entirety of existence. Everything real and good is already present and intact.
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Poem

Happiness

Holiest of days, glory be!
We are God’s happiness expressed,
His treasure,
His delight … 
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Article
Every time the fear arose that I would not regain full mobility, I challenged that suggestion until I had annihilated it, replacing it with a calm trust in God’s omnipotent ability to maintain my activity and freedom.
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Make demands on Love

Out of despair, I had challenged my view of what I thought God could do. A truly tough trial resulted in a higher understanding of God’s unchanging love for me and the restoration and exaltation of all the good I thought I’d lost.
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Kids

Love helped the wren

After she finished singing the hymn to the bird, Mia didn’t feel upset anymore. She told her mom how she had prayed.
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Of course God will heal me

This week’s guest, Beth Packer, is certain that God will heal every ailment. Why? She’s experienced and witnessed healing. She’s learned through her study of Christian Science that God, who is Truth, is an ever-present, reliable, and healing power.
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Poem
Christian Science is not about the words or symbols ...
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Article

My prayers for peace

When my husband was part of an international peacekeeping force away from home, I learned to entrust his safety, as well as mine and our children’s, to God. 
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TeenConnect: Your Healings

Trusting God with track season

This athlete wanted to perform well—for herself and for her track team. But when the stress got to be too much, she knew she needed a change of mind-set. And that started with God.
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Testimony of Healing
I had an absolute conviction that I was in God’s care and that all I had to do was follow His direction. 
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Testimony of Healing
I hung on to every note, every word, every truth throughout the service. By the time it concluded, I was no longer in pain.
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Testimony of Healing

Freed of back pain

Nothing could spoil the beauty of those bluebells or take away the joy and gratitude I felt walking freely amongst those flowers.
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Substance

Jesus describes his relation to God as one of obedience to his Father.
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