I attend a local branch Church of Christ, Scientist, and am part of an Institutional Committee—we go into the local prison and read the Christian Science Bible Lesson with the prisoners a few times a month.
News can seem to be a nonstop narrative of tragedies and victims: an unceasing flow of children, women, and men routed by war, fleeing drought, epidemics, terrorists, repression.
Spiritual alertness and intuitiveness were qualities Christ Jesus stressed for his disciples and for all those who followed him: “What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch”.