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Our secure home
Originally published in The Christian Science Monitor’s Christian Science Perspective column December 10, 2024.
How do you feel about where you live —your home and surroundings? Knowing that millions of refugees worldwide need a safe place to live gives added importance to how we think about home. It’s natural to desire a home for ourselves and others that is secure and comforting.
Psalm 23 in the Bible gives this safe dwelling place a simple name: “the house of the Lord” (verse 6). The house of the Lord doesn’t have four walls and a roof. And it’s not a spot on earth.
Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered Christian Science and founded this news organization, shows how practical the phrase “the house of the Lord” is when it’s interpreted spiritually. Her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures elucidates the full verse this way: “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house [the consciousness] of [love] for ever” (p. 578).
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