December 23, 1991
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From the Editors
"I
was impatient to be somewhere else, anywhere else.
About our cover — Each time we take a genuinely fresh look at the Christmas story, we encounter the authority and the authenticity of God's love.
Christmas seems to be a time when people are more willing to make room for the miracle of unchanging love. But isn't it time we saw this love as God's law instead of as mystery?
A spiritual insight into the message of Christmas carried the author through a challenge in the middle of summer.
When we look at spiritual healing as something extraordinary, we tend to miss the Science of Christ, which makes healing possible.
It's easy to think that if we just keep changing our situation, things have to get better eventually. This writer has learned that something else has to change.
And it came to pass in thosedays, that there went out adecree from Cæsat Augustus,that all the world should betaxed.
What opens for us the truth of the Bible is the very Spirit that impelled the record in the first place.
We begin to experience true peace when we learn how God governs His spiritual family in perfect harmony.
We're celebrating more than the birth of the child, Jesus. We're celebrating the eternal presence of the Christ, or Truth, he lived—and realizing Christ's power to transform us here and now.
My
first encounter with Christian Science came through a Christian Science practitioner who helped me overcome nervous debility.
Some years ago I suffered from bunions on my feet.
Not long ago I went to lunch at a fellow Christian Scientist's home.
A healing I had many years ago contributed greatly to my spiritual growth.
I had a trying yet joyous experience that brought me closer to God—the birth of our daughter.
