Vital church is more than a passive place where we simply get inspiration and go about our lives. As many are rediscovering, the full blessing of church involves giving—and continuing to give even when it is resisted or rejected.
Church is spiritual, and is structured and supported by God. It isn’t subject to demographics or cultural trends, which change and shift, or skepticism about organized religion. It is eternal.
Wanting to make a difference for humankind is more than a positive outlook on the world. It’s the result of the spiritual impulse in human consciousness called the Christ.
Even when healings don’t happen as quickly as we would like, there should never come a time when we stop insisting on the fact of God’s love for us, even the all-presence and power of divine Love itself.
When called to do so, we too can perform duties that limit our sleep “without harm” to ourselves—whether completing a deadlined project, or responding to an urgent request for healing prayer. This isn’t about powering through on the promised adrenalin of human will, but about letting that communing with God open our thoughts to a profound peace that’s always inherent in us as God’s offspring.
Cultivating not only a heart that yearns to understand God as Spirit but also a willingness to identify and let go of materialistic ways of thinking, is central to the practice of Christian Science.
True resilience is grounded in the spiritual fact that God is our divine Parent, who has bestowed grace and favor upon each of us because each of God’s children is precious in His sight.
When we are living the beautiful qualities that express everyone’s true identity—purity, compassion, tenderness, mercy, unselfishness, and countless others—God’s redeeming and healing love shines forth through us to bless all humanity.
