The prayerful affirmation that there is one Mind doesn’t mean papering over human opinions or tolerating extreme ones. But it does have a way of lessening self-will, softening reactions, and deflating rhetoric so that commonalities and solutions can emerge.
Our motive can be to express loving qualities such as compassion, patience, and gentleness in our communications with others. This makes us a transparency for the Love that is God, and our thoughts will be lifted off ourselves. We will therefore not be as likely to experience awkward social interactions.
Without a home to go to or a job to support her four children, one single mother prayed for answers. How could she find housing without an income? The answers she found were surprising and have supported her and her family ever since.
It was the state championship, and after an intense race, this runner found himself contending with fatigue in the next event. But that’s when everything he’d been putting into practice as a Christian Scientist came to his rescue.
I asked myself, Am I as accepting and certain of this health benefit—God healing all my diseases—as I was of my paid vacation when I worked for a company?
While she was friendly with many of the students at her school, this teen yearned for a friend group of her own. When she began to pray about friendship, she not only ended up finding “her people,” but she got something even more profound: a deeper and more solid understanding of God’s love.
No matter what our current circumstances are, or what predictions are made about our lives, we all have the God-given ability to know that we live in the uninterrupted cycle of infinite good, now and forever.
Fears of being judged or ridiculed by others are overcome by the steady conviction that God is the power behind right ideas and our ability to express them clearly.