Brotherhood, equality, justice, just stirring words for sermons and speeches? Not if we understand their real basis in the one divine Mind, God, who governs all.
If we feel rejected or cut off from others, we may need to understand more of God as our Father-Mother. A deeper sense of God's love led this writer to a warm church-home and to family healing.
A Little
over twenty-six years ago, an estimated quarter of a million blacks and whites gathered together peacefully in the United States capital on a sweltering August day to hear Dr.
One of the sad offshoots of prejudice is the stunting of individual possibilities. But divine intelligence helps us break through barriers and express more of our real, spiritual nature.
I read your poem and I marvelat the gracious flow of thoughtthe healing tonethe bright precision of your dictionand think that I could never matchsuch gentle ingenuity.
Wanting to be better is certainly a start in the right direction. But learning what we really are as sons and daughters of God transforms us as nothing else can.
"With one Father, even God, the whole family of man would be brethren; and with one Mind and that God, or good, the brotherhood of man would consist of Love and Truth, and have unity of Principle and spiritual power which constitute divine Science.
Who doesn't love spiritual vitality wherever it's found? But we may need to do a better job of resisting the suggestion it can't be found in our own church.
Even when we believe prayer can heal, do we sometimes wonder if our prayers can be good enough? Maybe we're laboring under a false sense of what prayer is.
Derek Richard Henry
with contributions from Joan S. Henry
During the more than forty years that I have been a Christian Scientist, I have had numerous healings, some of which I related in my testimony published in the Sentinel in 1966.