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Unlimited resources
The study of Christian Science has taught countless numbers of people that relying on God, Soul, to meet one’s needs lifts thought to an awareness of limitless good, always accessible and just at hand. This Science challenges the conventional truism that resources of health, employment, companionship, or any other necessity are finite and subject to fluctuating circumstances, laws of time, economic cycles, medical theories, and rules of human nature.
The idea that our resources are infinite may appear incredible to one who is used to expecting much less. Such a concept might even seem a form of overreaching, lacking in Christian humility. Yet to demonstrate the presence of spiritual abundance, one actually needs to cultivate humility, along with perseverance and gratitude, just to name a few of the spiritual qualities that bring us into accord with the law of omnipresent good.
“Soul has infinite resources with which to bless mankind, and happiness would be more readily attained and would be more secure in our keeping, if sought in Soul,” Mary Baker Eddy tells us on page 60 of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. And how are these ideas to be found? The answer, of course, is through prayer—that willingness that allows thought to become God-directed and expectant of good, dismissing a limited view of our situation, whatever it may be, and revealing the ideas Soul is providing to meet our need.
Enjoy 1 free Sentinel article or audio program each month, including content from 1898 to today.
July 23, 2012 &
July 30, 2012
double issue
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Letters
Steven Price, Blanche Saul, Candace Gibson
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Rejoicing together
Kim Shippey, Senior Staff Editor
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Borderless community
Walter Rodgers
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How big is good?
Nancy Mullen
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A rising tide lifts all boats
Jeff Ward-Bailey
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My first interfaith experience
Bonnie Mitchinson
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Embracing communities worldwide
Kim Shippey, Senior Staff Editor
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Climate change: What I could do
Elizabeth Graser-Lindsey
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Delight in international giving
Peter Dry
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Praying for a school community
Suzanne Smedley
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The grizzly bear delusion
Glenn Williams
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Salvation
Brian Kissock
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Unlimited resources
Heather Howland Kany
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Planted in a new path
Dorothy H. Thomson
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Love's leading
Tad Blake-Weber
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Seeking the way
Linda Gridley Lane
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The answer
Barbara Whitewater
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Solutions
Charlotte Bushnell
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Marjorie and the Dream
Phyllis W. Zeno
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Focused thought
Richard Albins
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God made you perfect
Megan Meehan
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What are you going to be when you grow up?
Leide Lessa
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Sign me up!
Bob Minnocci
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I shared with my professor
Bruce Matouka
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Your questions about church
Answers offered by Tim Myers and Michelle Nanouche
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'A spiritual model of life'
William Otieno
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The 'more excellent way'
Christa Kreutz
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Finding our God-given freedom
Ann Edwards
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A healing standard
Mark Sappenfield
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A summer of 'radical acts'
Jeff Ward-Bailey
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Lots of Laughs
Madora Kibbe
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Protected during a fall
Norma P. Cooper with contributions from Elizabeth Gibbons
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Chest pains overcome
B. James Jokerst
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Spinal meningitis healed
Charles O'Gorman
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Spine fracture healed
Brooks Rakos
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What makes you who you are?
The Editors