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Bringing stability to unstable times

Lyle Young

How comforting to know that the world can neither give us stability nor take it away. We have that stability now in God’s spiritual reality.
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Finding refuge in church

Scott L. Schneberger

The prayers of those present in church services—acknowledging God, good, as All—can help us feel our God-given safety as well as our unity with fellow children of this one, omnipotent God.
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“Let’s not leave him there”

Sue Brightman

Why would I ever allow an untrue view of a loved family member—of anyone, for that matter—to linger in my thought? I realized that as the expression of divine Life, my dad’s true selfhood had never been subject to matter or mortality, but had always reflected the Life that is eternal Spirit.
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Unlimited you

Sherry Requarth

Instead of counting limits,
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My prayers for peace

Mari G. de Milone with contributions from Leonel Milone

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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Learning to listen to God

Winnie

I knew I had dominion over any scared or nervous thoughts. If I felt nervous at all, I still knew I was safe every time.
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My healing was complete

Idinma Princewill Sylvester

What should have been a fun evening around the campfire turned into an uncomfortable experience for this teen, who found he couldn’t tolerate the smoke. Could a change in thought bring healing?
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Saved from sexual assault

With Lisa Rennie Sytsma

This week’s guest, Lisa Rennie Sytsma, shares how she turned to God during a disturbing experience—and how it became a holy moment.
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Where we live

James Walter

It is a place we know so well,
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A healing response to sexism in the workplace

Anne Sorochinsky

It became clear to me that the type of sexist treatment we had experienced and the belief that it had to be tolerated as “just the way it is” had to be challenged for everyone’s benefit, not just my own.
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Testimony of Healing

Baby protected during pregnancy

Diane Bradshaw

I felt a glow of light that seemed greater than the sunlight. I realized that this child was wrapped up in love and that I was, too.
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Vocal challenges overcome, burns healed

Penelope Strelow

I was determined to know that divine Love was at the helm of my thought and that I could go to the audition without fear or uncertainty.
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Prayer halts aggressive symptoms

Judith Cordray

I prayerfully affirmed that I am spiritual, with no material parts that could malfunction. 
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Is the Universe, Including Man, Evolved by Atomic Force?

June 17–23, 2024

God’s calling elements of creation by name confirms their distinct identities and His dominion over them.
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Heather Eagen, Julie Swannell, Caroline Long

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What the heart wants

Lisa Rennie Sytsma

To be effective, prayer needs to be God centered, not “me” centered. Of course God meets our practical needs. The Bible tells us that God loves us, and He does. We see our needs met as we grow in our love for both God and man and act on that love.  
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Spiritual study: Time well spent

Tressie Armstrong

Making the effort to understand spiritual reality and our unbreakable relationship to God brings good to all of the other endeavors of life.
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Reliance on Spirit, not stimulants

Elaina Simpson

Inspiration, rest, productivity, comfort, alertness, energy, and satisfaction are all qualities of God that we each include as God’s image and likeness. Knowing this, we reach less and less for what doesn’t serve us or help us see God as the continuous source of these qualities.
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Turning Points in Spiritual Growth

A deep, persistent desire to know God

Susan Els

I felt a deep, persistent desire to understand this Science and to really know God. I wanted the kind of knowing that comes from a direct, definitive experience of the divine presence in my life—giving me a foundation I could stand on even if doubts or questions arose.
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Can I actually be healed of anxiety?

Susan Tish

I began considering the God-given, spiritual qualities that I naturally express, such as strength, resilience, goodness, and joy. I started to realize that these qualities couldn’t come and go; they were hardwired in me.
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Testimony of Healing

Painful skin growth disappears

Paul Trevithick

The moment my thought changed, the problem disappeared. I had experienced spiritual healing.
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TeenConnect: Your Healings

My healing was complete

Idinma Princewill Sylvester

What should have been a fun evening around the campfire turned into an uncomfortable experience for this teen, who found he couldn’t tolerate the smoke. Could a change in thought bring healing?
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Saved from sexual assault

With Lisa Rennie Sytsma

This week’s guest, Lisa Rennie Sytsma, shares how she turned to God during a disturbing experience—and how it became a holy moment.
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Where we live

James Walter

It is a place we know so well,
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A healing response to sexism in the workplace

Anne Sorochinsky

It became clear to me that the type of sexist treatment we had experienced and the belief that it had to be tolerated as “just the way it is” had to be challenged for everyone’s benefit, not just my own.
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Testimony of Healing

Burns on legs quickly healed

Gabriela Mick

A few days later, the skin dried and regenerated, looking like new. Not even a scar remained.
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Fatigue gone

Patti Gmeiner

What a joy and relief it is to know our one true source, God, supplies all needs. 
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Loud and clear

Carol Dismore

I listen, opening my thought—
no preconceptions when I pray.
I clear the clutter from my mind …
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Bible Lens

Christian Science

June 24–30, 2024

Jesus expresses absolute conviction about the continuation and growth of Christian healing.
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Fernando Xifré, Holly Frink, Sharon Dec

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Know it

Keith Wommack

Those needing God’s help can tangibly feel Christ’s healing presence and can assuredly declare, “I am well, and I know it.” 
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Steps to more effective prayer

Chris Jones

I’ve learned from experience that our prayers are incomplete untilwe put the inspiration we get from God into practice.
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Abiding in Love

Karen Daugherty

It is a joy to accept the invitation to abide in Love and experience that harmony right here, right now.
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The journey

Alice Shaw

I seek, but know not what I need.
I walk, but cannot find the way.
The burden heavy, the outlook dim.
          One day ...
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Let God be the problem solver

Pamela Savage

Instead of feeling responsible for coming up with a solution for a problem, we can turn wholeheartedly to God and listen for His angels.
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Image and Inspiration

God’s ideas reflect the immortal, unerring, and infinite.—Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 505
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TeenConnect: Your Healings

My healing was complete

Idinma Princewill Sylvester

What should have been a fun evening around the campfire turned into an uncomfortable experience for this teen, who found he couldn’t tolerate the smoke. Could a change in thought bring healing?
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Saved from sexual assault

With Lisa Rennie Sytsma

This week’s guest, Lisa Rennie Sytsma, shares how she turned to God during a disturbing experience—and how it became a holy moment.
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Where we live

James Walter

It is a place we know so well,
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A healing response to sexism in the workplace

Anne Sorochinsky

It became clear to me that the type of sexist treatment we had experienced and the belief that it had to be tolerated as “just the way it is” had to be challenged for everyone’s benefit, not just my own.
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I prayed in math class

Arianna

I listened for a good thought from God to know how to answer.
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Testimony of Healing

The healing power of the Lord’s Prayer

Anne Hedgepeth Banaskavich

By the time I got through the entire prayer, I was completely free from pain and discomfort.
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Injured arm healed

John Reichard West

As I continued to pray, the pain disappeared and normal use of the arm returned day by day. 
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A healing of PTSD

Victor Wegelin

I needed to forgive the driver who had hit my car. 
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Soul and Body

May 20–26, 2024

To seek the kingdom of God is to desire His goodness and righteousness; to seek it first is to place it above everything else.
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Marilyn Hesche, Jean Kossman, Arthur Colyar

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No other choice

Lisa Rennie Sytsma

I realized that despite praying for healing, I wasn’t seeing myself as worthy of healing.
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When I broke through resistance to testimony meetings

Kristen Henley-Hills

The naturalness of going to church had been tamped down, and not only did I no longer feel the impulse to go, but I felt a desire not to.
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Lessons from volunteering at a prison

Whit Larsen

Institutional work has taught me the importance of loving myself—seeing myself as God sees me—so that I can freely love others and be available to serve God in the way He points out.
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Unity of Spirit

Elsa Dardie S. Dunlap

What connects us, one to another?
It is the unity of Spirit—
One fellowship for all mankind …
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What’s my thinking got to do with it?

John Tyler

As I thought about my teammates, I had to bring into focus in my thinking God’s consciousness of their identities as His purely spiritual expression. I had to fill my thoughts about them with how they were known in Truth and embraced by Love.
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When I didn’t get accepted to university

Tanya Mapeta

I turned to prayer and let go of how I wanted things to turn out, instead trusting God with every aspect of my life.
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My healing was complete

Idinma Princewill Sylvester

What should have been a fun evening around the campfire turned into an uncomfortable experience for this teen, who found he couldn’t tolerate the smoke. Could a change in thought bring healing?
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Saved from sexual assault

With Lisa Rennie Sytsma

This week’s guest, Lisa Rennie Sytsma, shares how she turned to God during a disturbing experience—and how it became a holy moment.
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Where we live

James Walter

It is a place we know so well,
though not a house ...
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A healing response to sexism in the workplace

Anne Sorochinsky

It became clear to me that the type of sexist treatment we had experienced and the belief that it had to be tolerated as “just the way it is” had to be challenged for everyone’s benefit, not just my own.
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Testimony meeting brings relief from pain

Tessa Parmenter

As I thought deeply about these ideas, various neck, shoulder, and back pains I had been feeling up until that moment completely dissolved. I hadn’t even realized that I had been so tense. I was able to sit up taller with ease, as if a weight had been lifted off of me.
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Hip injury healed

Jan Taglier

The overriding thought that kept coming to me was that faithfully fulfilling my responsibility would lead to healing.
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Relationships improve, pain disappears

Sarah D’Evelyn Grossman

Over the next three or four days, the pain in my mouth lessened before disappearing completely. During the event, all I could see was abundant, genuine love expressed among all those attending.
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Ancient and Modern Necromancy, alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced

May 27–June 2, 2024

Biblical prophets often described themselves as watchmen—discerning God’s Word and watching over His people.
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John Richards, Annette Brooks, Diana Wennerstrom, Murph Elliott

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Healing our past hurts

Tony Lobl

We can lean on the power of God to uproot the lie that mortal mind is trying to impose as our history and rightly rewrite that material history with the goodness of God as the formative source—the only source—of our genuine past, present, or future.
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Fellowship: Learning from the early Christians

Susan Angle Damone

Much more than just exchanging warm hellos once or twice a week with people sharing the same pew, our fellowship strengthens us individually and collectively, especially when challenges arise.
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Image and Inspiration

Gracious Father, in Thy love, 
Send Thy blessings from above; 
Let Thy light, Thy truth, Thy peace 
Bid all strife and tumult cease. —Christian Science Hymnal, No. 72
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Why wait for healing?

Melissa Hayden

When it seemed that circumstances were stacked against an individual, or the situation seemed irredeemable, Jesus’ understanding of God, good, and trust in his heavenly Father necessarily brought healing and salvation.
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It wasn’t God versus the flood

Tori Fredrickson

I stopped checking to see if the water was rising. I realized that my only job was to bear witness to God’s omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniaction.
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Healing at hockey camp

Alison Inches McKown

Mom got out a book that had helped Hunter before because it has lots of stories about God in it.
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My healing was complete

Idinma Princewill Sylvester

What should have been a fun evening around the campfire turned into an uncomfortable experience for this teen, who found he couldn’t tolerate the smoke. Could a change in thought bring healing?
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Saved from sexual assault

With Lisa Rennie Sytsma

This week’s guest, Lisa Rennie Sytsma, shares how she turned to God during a disturbing experience—and how it became a holy moment.
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Where we live

James Walter

It is a place we know so well,
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A healing response to sexism in the workplace

Anne Sorochinsky

It became clear to me that the type of sexist treatment we had experienced and the belief that it had to be tolerated as “just the way it is” had to be challenged for everyone’s benefit, not just my own.
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Testimony of Healing

Acute internal disorder overcome

Van Driessen

What came to me that day was to ponder deeply whether I really believed in and understood Jesus’ life—his words and works.
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Healings during law school

Mark Hendrickson

In just a moment or two, all the symptoms simply vanished. I had a complete healing of that chronic condition.
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Freedom found during church service

Anna C. Reynolds

I realized that the same “law of the Spirit of life” that Christ Jesus demonstrated was active, present, and had made me inherently and naturally free from any quality or condition unlike God. The illness left me immediately.
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God the Only Cause and Creator

June 3–9, 2024

Jesus emphasizes that God desires inner purification rather than mere outward cleansing.
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Lance Lambert, Suzy Seibert, Christine Weller, Sarah Allen-Wolf

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The heart of humility

Larissa Snorek

Through humility we see our nature as God-sourced and God-maintained—and everyone else’s as well. 
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Overcoming the Goliath of self

Karen Neff

There it was again! These explosions of temper were growing more severe, and I needed help.
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“A heart softened, a character subdued”

John Paxton Qualtrough

I could see clearly that in my intense focus on doing well at my job, I had become rigid and high-strung. That day I committed myself to a new way of living based on a desire for a life “in accord with God.”
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How I Found Christian Science

My life changed forever

Celia Hernandez

Since my son’s return to health, I have been reading the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, and I’ve realized that a life dedicated to God brings out a beauty and love that have always been deep inside of me.
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My evening and my morning prayer

Clark Beim-Esche

Dear Father-Mother, as I pray,
O let me see eternal light—
the light of Love and Soul supreme
that banishes the earthly dream … 
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TeenConnect: Your Healings

What’s my motive?

Holly Ashford

I’d been looking at this as a chance to perform and to show off what I thought was my talent, when my motive should have been to glorify God.
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My healing was complete

Idinma Princewill Sylvester

What should have been a fun evening around the campfire turned into an uncomfortable experience for this teen, who found he couldn’t tolerate the smoke. Could a change in thought bring healing?
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Saved from sexual assault

With Lisa Rennie Sytsma

This week’s guest, Lisa Rennie Sytsma, shares how she turned to God during a disturbing experience—and how it became a holy moment.
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Where we live

James Walter

It is a place we know so well,
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A healing response to sexism in the workplace

Anne Sorochinsky

It became clear to me that the type of sexist treatment we had experienced and the belief that it had to be tolerated as “just the way it is” had to be challenged for everyone’s benefit, not just my own.
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Testimony of Healing

Healed of a brain tumor

Victoria Cole

The doctors told me that the X-rays they had taken the previous week, which had confirmed their diagnosis, didn’t match the ones they now held in their hands. They said, “There is absolutely no evidence of a tumor.”
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Safe in an undertow

Donna Black

I knew these thoughts were coming to me as pure guidance from God, and I could trust them. I stopped struggling, relaxed, and thought of God’s love for me and the whole universe.
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Walking freely, freed from sorrow

Sharon Myles

I kept my thought focused only on what God was telling me every moment. I went about my daily activities giving gratitude for everything I was able to do. I was walking freely within a couple of days.
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God the Preserver of Man

June 10–16, 2024

Hearing God’s Word calls for active adherence to His commands.
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Robin Kadz, Elizabeth Dandy

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