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Editorial
Christ awakens us to a new kind of life, the life we’ve always had as God’s child, and selfishness and sinful behavior give way to the lasting spiritual joy, dignity, and authority that comprise our real, sinless nature. 
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I felt more confident that individual prayer uplifts and spiritualizes the world’s collective mental atmosphere and thus blesses humanity. 
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Grief is not the price we pay for love but the false sense that comes from dark views of life and love as material and finite. 
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Claim your inheritance

We claim our God-given inheritance by consistently acknowledging our status as God’s spiritual creation and disavowing any aspect of mortal, material selfhood.
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Kids
What a big double-blessing day we had because God’s love always ripples outward. Thank you, God!
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Testimony of Healing
I stopped fretting. I enjoyed my time with friends, my career, and my church work and cherished the present good God was giving me.
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Poem

No darkened space

The light of God’s day
   holds no extra room
   where one can visit night.
      And searching will not find
      a single darkened space
      in God’s house …
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What is not going to change

We were struggling to get our bearings after my then-fiancé was laid off when a friend warmly encouraged us, “Instead of worrying about what’s going to change, think instead about what’s not going to change.” 
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TeenConnect: Your Healings
An incident at camp prompted this author to dig deeper into what real beauty is and looks like—and she was amazed by the results!
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For those who have prayed and experienced healing results, prayer is a natural first response when challenges arise. But what about those times when we’re praying but we feel like we’re not getting an answer right away? Our guest, Scott Shivers, talks about how he’s dealt with this in several situations—and the key is about more than just persistence.
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Testimony of Healing

Muscle soreness gone

I realized my God-bestowed health and limitless activity. As a result, on Monday I was pain-free and able to participate in my normal activities for that day.
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Testimony of Healing

Healing of bronchiolitis

As we left the doctor’s office, my wife started to cry. At that moment I said to her, “There is a treatment—Christian Science treatment.”
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Bible Lens
Jesus chooses the mustard seed, with its tiny size and immense potential, to illustrate faith.
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Letters & Conversation

Thank you for this spiritual “call to arms.
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There was no blame to assign; I had never left God’s care—and neither had anyone else.
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Article
Christian Science boldly states to the world that our true lives are found in Spirit. Those who cling to the popular belief that life resides in matter—that we are merely or largely flesh and blood—may doubt, even oppose, Christian Science. But that does not change its truthfulness or threaten its existence.
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Article
Yielding to the truth that each of us is Love’s creation has increasingly enabled me—despite anyone’s devaluating actions and my reactions to them—to perceive God’s love for them and me, to acknowledge what that means God knows us to be, and to recognize that I can love. 
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Turning Points in Spiritual Growth
I made up my mind that I would stop thinking so much about myself and start considering how I could help others. As I began to put this into practice, remarkable things started to happen.
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Image and Inspiration
High in the heavens, eternal God, Thy goodness in full glory shines …
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TeenConnect: Your Healings
It was the day of her piano performance—in front of a judge!—and this teen felt full of nerves . . . until an unexpected message from God shifted her whole mindset. 
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Poem

No darkened space

The light of God’s day
   holds no extra room
   where one can visit night.
      And searching will not find
      a single darkened space
      in God’s house …
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Article

What is not going to change

We were struggling to get our bearings after my then-fiancé was laid off when a friend warmly encouraged us, “Instead of worrying about what’s going to change, think instead about what’s not going to change.” 
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TeenConnect: Your Healings
An incident at camp prompted this author to dig deeper into what real beauty is and looks like—and she was amazed by the results!
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Sentinel Watch
For those who have prayed and experienced healing results, prayer is a natural first response when challenges arise. But what about those times when we’re praying but we feel like we’re not getting an answer right away? Our guest, Scott Shivers, talks about how he’s dealt with this in several situations—and the key is about more than just persistence.
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Testimony of Healing

Tooth problem reversed

Everything about me, including this tooth and its root, is continually maintained by God and cannot deteriorate or die.
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Testimony of Healing

Back injury healed

I give full credit to God for this healing. I am grateful for the growing understanding of my unbroken relationship to Him that I gain from my continuing study of the Holy Bible and Science and Health. 
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Testimony of Healing

No more fear of public speaking

God was expressing good qualities through my son as the speaker, and He would also be expressing good through the audience, causing each one to love what God was doing and respond appropriately.
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Poem
Lambs follow their Shepherd, 
all needs supplied. 
Their rest they take unfettered, 
calmly satisfied ...
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Bible Lens

Christian Science

The book of Revelation describes a tree that offers universal access to healing and restoration.
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Letters & Conversations

Thank you for this spiritual “call to arms.
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Editorial

Following the Science

An axe head dropped in water will sink.
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Article
Take your concept of yourself out of time and put it where it belongs—in eternity. 
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Article
My thought was so filled with uplifting truths from God that there was no room for doubt or fear. I trusted that God would deliver me from evil.
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Poem

Paradise found

Shall I pray to catch the ear
of a distant God,
or hope to bring the Lord of heaven
down to earth? ...
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Turning Points in Spiritual Growth
Recently, I attended my brass band practice with the guest conductor we employ.
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TeenConnect: Trending
A student from Sweden shares how she prayed when everyone was stressing out about their upcoming exams and she found herself struggling to rise above the fear.
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Poem

No darkened space

The light of God’s day
   holds no extra room
   where one can visit night.
      And searching will not find
      a single darkened space
      in God’s house …
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Article

What is not going to change

We were struggling to get our bearings after my then-fiancé was laid off when a friend warmly encouraged us, “Instead of worrying about what’s going to change, think instead about what’s not going to change.” 
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TeenConnect: Your Healings
An incident at camp prompted this author to dig deeper into what real beauty is and looks like—and she was amazed by the results!
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Sentinel Watch
For those who have prayed and experienced healing results, prayer is a natural first response when challenges arise. But what about those times when we’re praying but we feel like we’re not getting an answer right away? Our guest, Scott Shivers, talks about how he’s dealt with this in several situations—and the key is about more than just persistence.
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Testimony of Healing
Dwelling and resting in my Father-Mother God’s loving and certain care brought complete healing.
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Testimony of Healing

Childhood healings

Years later, my mother told me that she would simply ask God what to say, and the ideas would just pour in. I remember those ideas feeling like cold water in a hot desert.
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Testimony of Healing
Mowing the entire lawn without any trouble was a very significant proof of healing for me, as is my continuing freedom from fatigue and weakness.
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Bible Lens
Only Christ provides the understanding of God that brings salvation.
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Letters

Letters & Conversation

I want to thank you for this—for me—fresh point of view on apparent lack of health, resources, etc.
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Editorial

A healing rebuke

Following in Jesus’ footsteps, as he said we could and would, we have the same spiritual capacity, and the inherent right, to reject the evil that would say that we are subject to sickness, disability, or anything else that isn’t of God.
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Article

Why am I here?

“Why am I here?” is no longer an open question if we respond to the calling to be a follower of Christ.
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Article
Our joy-filled living of Godlike qualities reflects that sunlight of Love and Truth—of God—to our communities and the world, enabling us to “hold crime in check,” heal disease, and benefit our environment.
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Article
It is very satisfying to share a book that has been so helpful to me. Passing the blessing along to another enriches us both.
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Poem
When darkness seems so very real 
And light seems oh so dim, 
Be willing, when called, to share 
   Truth’s strength.
Take up your ...
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Kids
A Sunday School class inspired me to put the Lord’s Prayer in my own words, which helped me understand how it applies to me.
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Poem

No darkened space

The light of God’s day
   holds no extra room
   where one can visit night.
      And searching will not find
      a single darkened space
      in God’s house …
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Article

What is not going to change

We were struggling to get our bearings after my then-fiancé was laid off when a friend warmly encouraged us, “Instead of worrying about what’s going to change, think instead about what’s not going to change.” 
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TeenConnect: Your Healings
An incident at camp prompted this author to dig deeper into what real beauty is and looks like—and she was amazed by the results!
Read Listen
Sentinel Watch
For those who have prayed and experienced healing results, prayer is a natural first response when challenges arise. But what about those times when we’re praying but we feel like we’re not getting an answer right away? Our guest, Scott Shivers, talks about how he’s dealt with this in several situations—and the key is about more than just persistence.
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Testimony of Healing
Within a few hours, I had total freedom of movement in my wrist, and my husband commented on how quickly I had been healed.
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Testimony of Healing
I began to be more certain that I could never be beyond God’s care. As a result, my fear significantly lessened.
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Testimony of Healing

Free to forgive

Realizing that we can actually get free of wrong thinking and acting and help others to be free through forgiveness opened up a whole new realm of thought for me. 
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Bible Lens
God’s purpose may be invisible, yet—like a seed hidden under soil—its fulfillment is certain.
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Letters

Letters & Conversation

This editorial helped me to realize that each time I struggle to overcome any problem that is mentally or physically challenging.
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Editorial

Why choose kindness?

Consider what might happen, individually and collectively, if we were to become conscious of God’s infinite love and the spiritual fact that nothing except Love and its effects are real.
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Article

Nothing to lose

We should boldly deny that we can be without anything we need, for to accept that we could be is to dishonor God, who ceaselessly provides for the welfare of His entire creation.
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Article
The divine message quickly came: “God never leaves us without a safety net.” All fear left me. I was safe, and I knew I could rely on that spiritual fact, despite not knowing how it would manifest itself.
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Article
The beauty that never fades is God’s gift to all of His children, and it brings to each heart a bright inner glow of love.
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Image and Inspiration
This week’s photographic inspiration and related text.
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TeenConnect: Your Healings

When the future is looming

At a crossroads in her life, this author felt like she had no idea what to do or where to go next. But she was about to find out that God hadn’t abandoned her.
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Poem

No darkened space

The light of God’s day
   holds no extra room
   where one can visit night.
      And searching will not find
      a single darkened space
      in God’s house …
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Article

What is not going to change

We were struggling to get our bearings after my then-fiancé was laid off when a friend warmly encouraged us, “Instead of worrying about what’s going to change, think instead about what’s not going to change.” 
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TeenConnect: Your Healings
An incident at camp prompted this author to dig deeper into what real beauty is and looks like—and she was amazed by the results!
Read Listen
Sentinel Watch
For those who have prayed and experienced healing results, prayer is a natural first response when challenges arise. But what about those times when we’re praying but we feel like we’re not getting an answer right away? Our guest, Scott Shivers, talks about how he’s dealt with this in several situations—and the key is about more than just persistence.
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Testimony of Healing

Herniated disc healed

My wife bought Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy at a street fair. After it sat on our bookshelf for a while, I read it—cover to cover. I began to find answers to many questions.
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Testimony of Healing

Prayer and protection

I looked into the man’s eyes and knew that there was only one influence over him: God. In reality, he was God’s child, the pure and sinless man of His creation.
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Testimony of Healing
In three days, I was back to walking normally. After a week, all evidence of injury was gone.
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Poem

See divine Life

Look up, My child,
Away from the past,
See the beauty . . . 
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Bible Lens

God the Preserver of Man

Believers are to turn from pride and pretension to the meek trustfulness of a child.
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Letters

Letters & Conversation

The statement “Hatred; damaging decisions; and the pollution of guilt, abuse, or stubborn will have no activity, voice, or impact because they do not abide in Love” stopped me in my mental tracks.
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