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Getting to know ourselves as God knows us
Our genuine selfhood is not what the physical senses report. We find our true identity in God, as His expression.
One of the fundamental points in Christian Science is that each one of us has spiritual selfhood. This nature is God's own reflection, His expression, and so includes such God-given qualities as love, goodness, intelligence, truthfulness, and integrity. Christian Science explains that we can learn to know better our true, God-given nature through spiritualization of thought.
Because God is the source of our real being, to truly know ourselves we must begin with God. A desire to know God may start with the acknowledgment that He is knowable. As we pray to really know God, we find we begin to know ourselves as children of a knowable, heavenly Father. And conversely, as we recognize the spiritual qualities we have, we are becoming acquainted with God, their source.

December 18, 1989 issue
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Christmas peace
Linda Bumpus
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The gang
Phyllis Anne Duffin
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The love that brings freedom
Margaret E. Moore
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Getting to know ourselves as God knows us
Lieber Anker
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FROM HAND TO HAND
P. P. W.
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Expressing our love
Elaine Natale
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FROM THE Directors
The Christian Science Board of Directors
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"The dark night wakes, the glory breaks"
Allison W. Phinney
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Receptive hearts and swift feet
Ann Kenrick
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I Was raised attending the Christian Science Sunday School...
Susan Ellen Turner
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In several necessary moves during the last ten years, my wife...
Paul W. Baum with contributions from Marilyn C. Baum
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I attended a Christian Science Sunday School from childhood...
James R. Davidson
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I have always enjoyed reading the testimonies of healing...
Janice Horn Ferguson with contributions from Dale W. Ferguson