January 7, 2019
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[Sentinel Watch, Jen McLaughlin, Carol Olano, Carl Phillips, Julie Pabst, and Van Driessen, “Giving praise and gratitude to God heals,” November 19, 2018]
At a Sunday service at a local Church of Christ, Scientist, I was gently lifted out of my sorrow.
How well I recall a most desperate call for light—the light needed for me to understand my life’s purpose.
My prayer was to acknowledge God’s good and perfect creation.
Even when Jesus was being executed like a criminal, he didn’t stop expressing love. He said, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”
From the time she was in second grade, this author was bullied for having so many freckles, and she felt the only answer was to change her appearance. But when hiding her freckles didn’t work, she learned she could find more lasting self-worth by understanding beauty and identity in a completely different way: spiritually.
I was cooking up a fresh batch of hummingbird syrup—something I do every two or three days during the summer months.
At one point this past year, I began feeling the symptoms of a chest cold.
One night, while reading a biography of Mary Baker Eddy, I read this account by a woman who had attended the dedication of The Mother Church in January 1895: “When I went home after the dedication of The Mother Church, I manifested a belief of a severe bronchial trouble which seemed very tenacious.
Healing is the effect of God’s law of progress, through which the influence of divine Love transforms human consciousness.
