Be a leader on your team

Susan E. Niebel

I was not a cheerleader or an athlete during my high-school years, but my daughter Stephanie was interested in these activities. She shared with me her desire to participate in high-school junior varsity and varsity sports. It was obviously important to her to be part of a team and to be a supportive influence for her school. Naturally, I began to think about ways I might possibly help.

During this time I was a new student of Christian Science, and what I was learning gave me a different way of thinking about God and man. Thanks to the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, I had a much broader and clearer sense of God's nature and our inseparable relation to Him as His image and likeness.

On page 465 of Science and Health, there are seven Bible-based synonyms used to describe God. One synonym—Spirit—seemed especially suited to our situation. I saw that when the Bible tells us man is made in God's image and likeness, it means that man's true nature is actually spiritual and good. Every good quality we express has its source in Spirit.

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