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Wake up—to healing!
Have you ever found yourself praying while in the midst of a bad dream? I once had a bizarre dream that there was a fishhook embedded in my skin. Throughout the dream, I tried to find someone to help me, and I prayed to God for guidance in finding a solution. But none came. Then, I woke up! I was happily surprised to discover that there was no fishhook in me. In an instant, I was freed from the deception of the dream. I saw that I had never been hurt or worried in this way, and had never needed to fix a problem like the one in the dream.
This experience reminded me of something I’d learned in Christian Science: that any unhappy or troubling situations we experience can be seen as dreamlike. That’s because the wide-awake reality of our being is spiritual.
The Discoverer of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, explains it this way: “Mortal existence is a dream of pain and pleasure in matter, a dream of sin, sickness, and death; and it is like the dream we have in sleep, in which every one recognizes his condition to be wholly a state of mind” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 188). Later, she adds to this description of mortality: “A mortal may be weary or pained, enjoy or suffer, according to the dream he entertains in sleep. When that dream vanishes, the mortal finds himself experiencing none of these dream-sensations.” And she continues, “Take away the mortal mind, and matter has no more sense as a man than it has as a tree. But the spiritual, real man is immortal” (p. 250).
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January 28, 2019 issue
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From the readers
Natalie A., Ruth Simpson, Christopher Bordeaux
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A view of others that heals
Margaret Wylie
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Wake up—to healing!
Kathie Walter
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The power of seeing man’s perfection
Michael Mooslin
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The Mind we can rely on
Terry Ann Homan
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Answer the right question
Mark Raffles
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The gift of Christian Science
Steve McCrocklin
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If you want to stop hating someone
Gracie Paul
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No more hip trouble
Peter Sisson
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Healed at a family reunion
Cheryl DeSanctis
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Protection from effects of accidents
Jennifer Quinn
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'By the Christ road, and none other ...'
Photograph by Allan Rowe
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Redeeming ourselves from strongman rule
Tony Lobl