When you’re using your spiritual senses, you’re drawing closer to God, so you’re more aware of the presence of good, and of God’s ever-present help for us.
No light-blocked shadows,Error’s silhouettes,Can lurk within Truth’s brilliance,Where the transparency of true identityShines out unhindered,Never bound by endless night,But always free to safely stayIn Your eternal day.
I was a single parent with two children, teaching in a private school in west Texas, when the desire and direction came for me to take Christian Science Primary class instruction from a Christian Science teacher in New York City.
About 40 years ago, when I was starting Christian Science nurses’ training after I graduated from college, a bleak sense of impenetrable darkness—feelings of hopelessness and worthlessness—settled on me one night, to the point that suicide seemed not just a reasonable option but the next best step.
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