In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

My prayer changed from “God, please give me the job I wish for because I know it will make me happy,” to “God, what matters most is that wherever I am, I am useful to You. I only want Your will for me.”

What Christians can expect

Our role as Christians is to profoundly sense humanity’s need for salvation from suffering and to find this salvation ourselves in seeing our lives as expressing God—for everyone’s sake.
It is logical and important to listen for what our Father-Mother God knows of us, since each of us is His very good creation, always safe and perfect.

“The babe we are to cherish”

Christmastime is a perfect occasion for understanding the significance of God’s sheltering love and how Christ ushers this love for the babe of Christian healing into our humble hearts.
Like Mary, we can accept God’s love for us as fundamental to our worthiness and see our lives open up to an abundance of selfless living and spiritual growth.
Christmas was rough after her dad died. But even during that difficult holiday, this author was able to feel the presence of Love that would never leave.

Prayer during a biathlon

It was her first time competing in a biathlon and this teen found that as she leaned on God, the race went even better than she expected.
What was and is needed most is love, all the love we can give our practice, along with the understanding that God is the healer.

Practice proves perfect

Instead of being a repetitive process of adding layer after layer of acquired skills, each hour of practice or study is chipping away at suggestions of limitation that conceal our true selves as the perfect, capable, unlimited expression of God.
I was the first person in my family to become a Christian Scientist and join The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, having begun to have healings and see the benefits of my spiritual study.

Real beauty

It is our actions that allow us to feel our inherent beauty—not for our glory but for the glory of God.

My Christmas angel

I rolled over on my back and lay still for a minute, knowing I was with my Christmas angel.