Editorial December 12, 2016 Issue

The quiet gift

Barbara Vining

An angel message to a reverent virgin. An amazingly bright star. A Savior’s birth being revealed to shepherds in a field at night. This is how God’s gift of His Son to the world came to receptive hearts—so very quietly.

In that same powerfully quiet way, the Christ message of God’s universal love and care for each one of His children came to individuals through Christ Jesus’ ministry. And that’s the way the Christ message comes to receptive hearts and minds today; it silently reaches into the deepest recesses of individual human consciousness and ministers to our conscious, and even unrecognized, longings—to bring healing and redemption to us.

In her book on the divine Science of the Christ, Mary Baker Eddy explains: “Christ is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness. The Christ is incorporeal, spiritual,—yea, the divine image and likeness, dispelling the illusions of the senses; the Way, the Truth, and the Life, healing the sick and casting out evils, destroying sin, disease, and death” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 332).

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