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Evil is not inevitable

Moji George

God, Truth, destroys evil by exposing its falsity, its contrariness to truth. As we consistently prove this for ourselves, we can begin to see lurking sin, simmering hatred, frightening physical symptoms—even war, disaster, or a pandemic—from a new and healing perspective.
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Being 'the fruit of the Spirit'

Susan Booth Mack Snipes

As I reached out to God for the inspiration that would transform self-righteous judgment to a sense of the divinely righteous judgment, a surprising question came to thought: “Are you willing to be the fruit of the Spirit?”
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God gathers up your talents for His glory

Elizabeth Ragsdale

I have learned to look daily for the ways in which God brings together the abilities that He has given to me and to others and puts them to use for His holy purpose.
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Heart’s longing

Robin Scott Collins

A heartfelt prayer for peace in Ukraine.
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How I’m praying after the Michigan State shooting

Rick Lipsey

My son and I talked about embracing the entire campus and community in our prayers, and that included praying about our view of the alleged gunman. But why include this in one’s prayers when someone has done such a terrible thing, and in a location that put a loved one at risk?
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First person

Bobby Lewis

Our God
is a first-person God,
the “I am” God, 
the God that is Love, Spirit, Mind,
revealing continually that
the Divine is more than
something we think about.
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With spiritual sense

James Walter

A poem to support those studying the Christian Science Bible Lesson on the subject “Reality.”
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Giving up the gossip habit

Katelyn Wigmore

I longed to more fully express the Christlike love that would enable me to refrain from gossip and to see what was needed to bring about healing.
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When I lost someone I loved

Dyllan McClain

For this author, losing someone she loved wasn’t just heartbreaking; it also shook her faith in God. Read on to find out how going back to church helped her feel close to God—and whole again.
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Women in the Bible: How their stories help us

With Madelon Maupin

When you think of notable women who've shaped the world we live in today, do you think of Lydia? Or how about Abigail? Our guest this week discusses the stories—and impact—of these and other female biblical figures and invites you to consider with her their continuing relevance.
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No more scary images

Angel

I started to understand that God is always protecting me whether I am awake or asleep, so the pictures of the incident couldn’t harm me or make me feel scared.
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Cold symptoms and stress healed in the warmth of Love

Ann Kneeland

During the forty-five minutes or so of letting my thinking be washed clean by divine Love, I forgot all about the cold.
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Reliance on medication overcome

Paul Sedan

Eventually I realized I couldn’t succeed by employing two opposing methods of treatment.
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Mobility pain gone

Roger Whiteway

I prayerfully worked during the day to be alert to refute the suggestions that I was material and at the mercy of pain and disability.
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Bible Lens

Reality

March 20–26, 2023

Just as water is drawn from a deep well, purposes and thoughts hidden in the heart are discerned by wisdom.
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Letters & Conversations

Nancy Buckwalter, Madelon Maupin, John Richards

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To be “a better transparency for Truth”

Thomas Mitchinson

We can wash away the dirt of materiality with spiritual understanding gained through prayer and study of the Bible and Science and Health.
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“My best, my ever Friend”

Kathryn Johnson

Turning to God lifts us out of loneliness as it lifts our thinking out of darkness and despair to behold the ever-shining light of divine Love that is all around us.
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It matters not what be thy lot, 
           So Love doth guide; 
For storm or shine, pure peace is thine, 
          Whate’er betide. 
                    —Mary Baker Eddy, Poems, p. 79
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God “chariots” humility

Patricia Kadick

I was learning to lean on God, divine Love, rather than my—or anyone else’s—preconceived view of how church should look or be. To vanquish self-righteousness. To be kind. To love as Jesus loved.
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The restoring power of Love

Jenny Sawyer

Love is ever active, so its rescuing, restoring activity is ongoing, unstoppable. It reaches, touches, comforts, every heart. It breaks through the deepest darkness.
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When I was doubting myself

Logan Cadey

I found I was starting to let go of feeling that my life was falling apart.
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With spiritual sense

James Walter

A poem to support those studying the Christian Science Bible Lesson on the subject “Reality.”
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Giving up the gossip habit

Katelyn Wigmore

I longed to more fully express the Christlike love that would enable me to refrain from gossip and to see what was needed to bring about healing.
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When I lost someone I loved

Dyllan McClain

For this author, losing someone she loved wasn’t just heartbreaking; it also shook her faith in God. Read on to find out how going back to church helped her feel close to God—and whole again.
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Women in the Bible: How their stories help us

With Madelon Maupin

When you think of notable women who've shaped the world we live in today, do you think of Lydia? Or how about Abigail? Our guest this week discusses the stories—and impact—of these and other female biblical figures and invites you to consider with her their continuing relevance.
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Testimony of Healing

Fractures healed after a fall

Peter Miller with contributions from Leslie Miller

Within two weeks, all evidence of the incident had vanished.
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Injured toe restored

Kerstin Schaeffer

I vehemently countered the pain with something specific: What does God know about me? Only good, because He made me.
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I had all the help I needed

Hannah Schlomann

I stopped on this single line: “Is not the Lord your God with you?” (I Chronicles 22:18). That simple question broke through the fear.
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No more elbow pain

Connie Crandell

I am grateful for an experience that showed me the healing efficacy of Christian Science.
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Bible Lens

Unreality

March 27–April 2, 2023

As the central power of the solar system, the sun is a natural symbol for God.
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Uta Kühnast, Bonnie Wood, Thomas von Cardinal

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Being a sheep, not a shepherd

Larissa Snorek

To follow God as Shepherd is to accept our own true nature—by listening and trusting God’s direction and seeking God’s guidance in all we do.
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Needed: Less “I” and more God

Bob Cochran

Whatever abilities or knowledge we appear to possess are minuscule compared to the infinite capacities possessed by God, omniscient Mind, who created all and knows all.
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Spotless

Elizabeth Jones

Here is a poetic offering that shows our tender relation to God.
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Spiritual forgetting

Pamela Savage

In pure moments of Christlike illumination, when we awaken to God’s eternal peace and harmony, both evil and the memory of it disappear.
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The answered call

Sky De Jersey

This tender poem shares gratitude for answered prayer. 
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An “Even if” protest

Elaina Simpson

Listening prayerfully to Love, God, reverses every “What if.” Love says, “Even if things feel troubling, I am here, and you cannot be separated from Me.”
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With spiritual sense

James Walter

A poem to support those studying the Christian Science Bible Lesson on the subject “Reality.”
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Giving up the gossip habit

Katelyn Wigmore

I longed to more fully express the Christlike love that would enable me to refrain from gossip and to see what was needed to bring about healing.
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When I lost someone I loved

Dyllan McClain

For this author, losing someone she loved wasn’t just heartbreaking; it also shook her faith in God. Read on to find out how going back to church helped her feel close to God—and whole again.
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Women in the Bible: How their stories help us

With Madelon Maupin

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Who am I really?

Inge Schmidt

I felt comfortable being true to myself and the values I’d discovered.
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Testimony of Healing

Perfect timing from God

Sylvia Herczeg

God took me, not just halfway, but all the way, including the healing of my leg. What a blessing! 
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Burn on child’s face healed

Veronica Kline

This diligent prayer helped me to deeply understand that my daughter’s true identity was entirely free of any record of the event. 
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Praying daily brings freedom

Heidi Kleinsmith Salter

While I’m certainly grateful for this quick healing, what I’m most thankful for is that I saw more clearly the importance and effectiveness of daily prayer.
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Man

February 27–March 5, 2023

Warning about the futility of human pride, Isaiah exhorts his people to quit their reliance on the devices of mortals and place wholehearted trust in God.
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Kelly Michaels, Verna Balch

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What’s truly in control of us?

Tony Lobl

We can stand firm for our capacity to think and act rightly, and lean on God’s power to enable us to identify and refute opposite thinking.
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We all need Church

Leide Lessa

Supporting and participating in church isn’t a burden but a joy. It’s an opportunity to transform lives for the better.
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Practicing Christian Science and health-care law: My journey so far

Leslie Ann Connery

I realized that I could mentally replace the “facts” I was reading in my files with what I knew to be spiritually true about everyone involved in these difficult situations.
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God made all His creatures free; 
Life itself is liberty.—James Montgomery, Christian Science Hymnal, Hymn 83
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How I found Christian Science

The church service that changed my life

Pamela Myers

When a woman attends a Christian Science church service, she is surrounded by love and feels spiritually nourished.
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Seeking peace

Kate Gould

A poem in response to the news of mass shootings. 
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With spiritual sense

James Walter

A poem to support those studying the Christian Science Bible Lesson on the subject “Reality.”
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Giving up the gossip habit

Katelyn Wigmore

I longed to more fully express the Christlike love that would enable me to refrain from gossip and to see what was needed to bring about healing.
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When I lost someone I loved

Dyllan McClain

For this author, losing someone she loved wasn’t just heartbreaking; it also shook her faith in God. Read on to find out how going back to church helped her feel close to God—and whole again.
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Fynn walks in the light of God

Davya Flaharty

Fynn’s mom got the idea to change the words of the hymn as a way of praying. 
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Testimony of Healing

Grace and repentance bring healing

Kurt Lancaster

I had been letting this problem dominate my thinking, but I could choose not to let it do so.
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Eyeglasses no longer needed

Robin Mulcahy

I recognize that God is what enables me to see.
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Divine Love’s warm embrace heals

Nancy Humphrey Case

To know God not just through what I have heard or through what I have read in the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, but through what I have experienced of this divine Love, is a precious gift.
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Fatigue overcome on multi-peak hike

John Sheasley

As I held to these truths, I felt revived, energetic, and physically unaffected by the miles we had traveled and the elevation we had gained.
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Substance

March 6–12, 2023

Throughout history, reverence for sacred sites has been expressed by removing one’s shoes.
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Joan Greig, David Parkinson, Carol Ames Sewell

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Our right to be inspired

Ethel A. Baker

We can all experience Spirit’s animating divine influence by turning to God—and not just in times of need but as a daily practice.
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A pastor that is the voice of good news for all

Ute Keller

This way of “preaching” results in a healing church service. The pastor opens the door for anyone to feel God’s presence and to hear Him speak directly to their heart.
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You are not matter

Melissa Hayden

The concept of being made in God’s image and likeness is key to understanding that matter is nothing.
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Never out of place

Jack Schaberg

Rather than feeling out of place, we can find the peace and permanence that come from knowing we are always one with the good that is God. 
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Understanding Christian Science step by step

Sheida Hodge

When I thought about the ever-presence and goodness of God, I started to have healings.
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My healing of a bad burn

Favour Odenyi

Healing doesn’t come from me pushing for it to happen but through understanding God.
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With spiritual sense

James Walter

A poem to support those studying the Christian Science Bible Lesson on the subject “Reality.”
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Giving up the gossip habit

Katelyn Wigmore

I longed to more fully express the Christlike love that would enable me to refrain from gossip and to see what was needed to bring about healing.
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When I lost someone I loved

Dyllan McClain

For this author, losing someone she loved wasn’t just heartbreaking; it also shook her faith in God. Read on to find out how going back to church helped her feel close to God—and whole again.
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Women in the Bible: How their stories help us

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Testimony of Healing

A rescue at sea

Christian Hagenlocher

I prayed, “Peace, be still.” The waves only grew bigger, but I felt an immediate peace and calm in my thinking. At that point, I knew I would get through this unharmed. 
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Discomfort in eye quickly healed

Rosemary P. Deary

I reasoned that I must be perfect, painless, and whole—unable to manifest any condition that is unlike God, good.
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Prayer dissolves skin growth

Charlene Anne Miller

Keeping my thought on the spiritual fact of God’s allness and goodness, I became less and less impressed by the physical appearance.
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Matter

March 13–19, 2023

Prophecy and revelation are to be kept alive, their genuineness nature proved in daily experience.
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Ellen White, Bob Whittlesey, Lorraine Mahon

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