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Last year my husband and I shared the wonder of having our...
Last year my husband and I shared the wonder of having our first child. Before the baby came I studied many passages in the Bible and in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy about man's identity. I learned that we are each complete individuals dwelling in Mind. Mrs. Eddy states in Science and Health (p. 70), "The divine Mind maintains all identities, from a blade of grass to a star, as distinct and eternal." The baby's true selfhood wasn't dependent on me and couldn't interfere with my expression of activity and health. This helped free me from morning sickness and worry about my diet. I gained only a minimal amount of weight during the pregnancy and was able to carry on my normal activities. I prayed daily to see the baby as a spiritual idea, complete, active, healthy, mature, eternal, having no beginning and no ending. This statement from Science and Health was helpful (p. 63): "In Science man is the offspring of Spirit." And further in the same paragraph, "His origin is not, like that of mortals, in brute instinct, nor does he pass through material conditions prior to reaching intelligence."
I saw clearly that my husband and I were perceiving through spiritual sense another of God's ideas and that this idea dwells forever with God, Father-Mother. This healed any false sense of man as creator and released us from a burden of personal responsibility. God was caring for His child as He always had.

April 3, 1978 issue
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The wisdom and power of meekness
JACK EDWARD FOSS
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The Mind of Christ
HILDA MABEL SAYERS
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A WORD ABOUT HEALING
ARTHUR CHRISTIAN WEICK
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Breaking through debt
EDWIN G. LEEVER
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Let! Let!
Myra Reid
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Knowing—really knowing—the truth
JUDITH ANN HARDY
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The unlimited wholeness of man
THELMA ARNOLD
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Do it!
Brian Donald Webster
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The new perception of reality
Geoffrey J. Barratt
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Do you hear God's voice?
Naomi Price
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In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy asks (p. 254): "If you venture...
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Seven years ago I went into the general contracting business
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