Editorials

It’s in our humble willingness to serve one another that we learn to heal.
The Bible shows us that we can understand and experience a power that is more than human; it is divine. 

What it means to be spiritual 

We are not stuck with being known by a personal profile nor trapped in an inferior sense of self, but are known by God as the loved of Love.

Consulting the pastor 

Right away Science and Health began to make God understandable to me—the God the Bible talks about all the time.
In the reality of our preexistence with God, we have only ever existed as Spirit’s pure, perfect expression.
As sons and daughters of the Divine we always reflect the ever-freshness of God as immortal Mind.
It’s through giving expression to God’s freely given idea, that Christ’s influence grows and grows and changes the world.
Editor’s Note: This Christmas season, we share this piece by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.
Whether struggling with too little time for listening for God or too much time by ourselves, God is always right there. 
Our God-given innocence cannot be silenced or compromised. We can lean wholeheartedly on God and fully embrace our purity. 
God’s love, as expressed in the teachings of Christian Science, meets us where we are and lifts us higher.

The power of asking 

Mary Baker Eddy closed her autobiographical work, Retrospection and Introspection, with a poem that pretty well sums up her own lifelong aim and what she hoped students of Christian Science would strive for: