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Feeling God's presence
Who hasn't longed for a more felt, vivid sense of God's presence? Sometimes hymns can open our eyes to Him as few things can.
How does one gain a heartfelt feeling of God's presence and not just think about Him in a sort of abstract, intellectual way?
For a long time it wasn't clear to me how to do this. Frequently I would try to really feel God's presence. Sometimes I would go to a quiet place, close my eyes, and attempt to silence the clamorings and suggestions of the carnal mind about disease, pain, fear, or sin. I would try to listen for a Christ message and feel God's love. At other times I sought inspiration by pondering a passage from the Bible or from the writings on Christian Science by Mrs. Eddy. These efforts were far from consistently successful.
When I asked for prayerful help from a Christian Science practitioner, it was suggested that I might do one more thing—look up references to the word feel in the Christian Science Hymnal. My research opened up for me a new way to recognize and feel God's presence. The words of Hymn 134 awakened my thought. One line says, "I feel Thy touch, eternal Love," and another line, "Thy hand in all things I behold." It dawned on me that I had been exposed to God's touch in many ways every day but was unaware of it. I had not been recognizing God's hand in the things I saw and heard.
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May 25, 1987 issue
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Overcoming discouragement
Roberta Gail Dever
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MY PRAYER
Carol Rose Kelling
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Feeling God's presence
Richard Charles Hix
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Where is the search for good leading us?
Lizabeth Hermine Furst
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Faith underground
Shirley Mary Nicholson
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God's animals
Allison W. Phinney, Jr.
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Face to face with the law of God
William E. Moody
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Stanley's story
Udai B. Hoffberg
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It has been so many years since my first published testimony that...
Lorraine G. Laule with contributions from Russell G. Laule
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Christian Science was introduced to me when I was serving as a...
Dorothy Burbidge
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Notices
with contributions from JOHN H. HOAGLAND