When contrasted with taking in the drama reported in the news from day to day, reading the Bible Lessons laid out in the Christian Science Quarterly might seem like a rather sedate exercise. But each week’s compilation of citations from the Bible and Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures conveys the transformative power of Christ, Truth, in fresh ways. That is the acme of up-to-date information: God voicing to human consciousness the knowledge we need of divine goodness, awakening us to what it is timely to understand about God, Spirit, and His spiritual creation. What could be more compelling than the present possibility of Christian healing? This is news we should want to read!

For those of us tethered to breaking news alerts, this daily spiritual news can prompt us to question what we are prioritizing. Is our primary attention given to what seems to be going wrong or to what’s eternally right—namely God’s all-embracing love, ever presence, and all-powerful truth? 

Making the latter our main source of news enables us to shine some healing light on the very events that might otherwise stir us to visceral reactions such as frustration, dread, despair, or even rage. It enables us to look beneath the clamor of events to see a “current running heavenward” (Science and Health, p. 106)—an underlying tendency of thought toward the harmony that God forever exudes and that we, as God’s expression, truly include. Noting the presence of this heavenly harmony where human discord seems to prevail nurtures a comforting calm as well as confidence in present and future progress. That’s a powerful, healing hope to introduce into the mix of humanity’s collective thought each day.