From our own hometowns to Ukraine, prayer for divine wisdom can help win the day. Humanity is embraced by divinity, not circumscribed by materialism. This spiritual fact compels greater confidence in the potential for healing and progress in everything from individual bodies to collective bodies, such as governments and nations. 

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, explains, “The divinity of the Christ was made manifest in the humanity of Jesus” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 25). Jesus’ Christliness embraced everyone in need with healing compassion and grace.

How does divinity embrace humanity? And what are the practical implications of this embrace for individuals as well as larger entities? For me, the answer to these questions is the realization that right in the midst of limited and discordant material conditions, there is a powerful divine presence—Christ. It’s unknown to the material senses but nonetheless present and ever active in human consciousness. It is capable of lifting human experience above the limitations and cruelties of matter-based systems of thought and action.