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I let God reform my thinking
One Sunday during a challenging time in my life over twenty years ago, I was sitting in a Christian Science church service. As I sat there praying, I asked God, “What can I do to be more like You?” Instantly an answer came to my thinking: “Nothing.” My incredulous response was, “But I’m getting divorced,” which I then followed up with a laundry list of other reasons why that simple and short answer had to be wrong. I asked again, and God’s response was again immediate. I heard the calming “still small voice” (I Kings 19:12) say, “My work in you is finished. You cannot add to it or take away from it.”
What a milestone moment! I began to deeply ponder why this is true, despite the continual need we each have for spiritual growth.
Christ Jesus said, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect” (Matthew 5:48). And Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “The Christlike understanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea,—perfect God and perfect man,—as the basis of thought and demonstration” (p. 259).
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November 25, 2024 issue
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Gratitude, even in our tough moments
Tony Lobl
Articles
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Good: Already at hand
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
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When the wildfire approached
Carol Coykendall Caspary Raner
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No back talk!
Cynthia P. Barnett
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Changing the story of suffering
Graça de Maria Amorim dos Santos
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I let God reform my thinking
Robert Schult
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The Love-lit road
Katie Beth
Kids
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We’re grateful for you!
Your youth editors
Healings
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Freed from rash and pain
Carol Anderson
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Triumph in church
Barbara Horton
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Promptly refuting symptoms brings healing
Steve Creighton
Bible Lens
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Ancient and Modern Necromancy, alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced
November 25–December 1, 2024
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Thanksgiving
2024
Letters & Conversations
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Letters & Conversations
Linda Vara, Jennifer Glaser, Justin McCarthy, Rita Jones