In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

Feeling Love's closeness

A merely intellectual, hypothetical, or abstract sense of Deity gives us little if any feeling of closeness to God.

I was once a shepherd

Some new neighbors moved in next door.
The Christian Scientist who wears glasses does not accept this material aid as a genuine solution to impaired vision.

"I have lots of loves"

So answered a toddler when his grandfather teased, "You give Grandma all of your love.
The disciples were crossing the Sea of Galilee after Jesus had fed the five thousand.
The Father's house, or kingdom of heaven, is not a large locality somewhere out in space; nor is it something dangling just beyond our reach.
That great statement in John's Gospel.

The apple of His eye

When the writer was a young child and had a loving relationship with her father, he often said to her tenderly, "You are the apple of my eye.

First case

It was a family rule: being the youngest in the family, Eric had to empty the wastebaskets once a week on all three floors of his home.

"Hang up, error. My line's busy!"

"Hang up, error.
Jesus promised his disciples, "These signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;.

Learning to love like the Samaritan