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.”
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.
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.
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.