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Prayer for unity during times of conflict
Originally published in The Christian Science Monitor’s Christian Science Perspective column May 13, 2025.
I was a little girl during a previous war between India and Pakistan, a region fraught with a history of division. I helped my grandparents darken our windows with brown paper so that the candlelight from inside the home couldn’t be seen from the outside when the sirens sounded. We’d sit in the dark—Nana, Papa, and I huddled together on a cushioned swing on our veranda, praying in our own sweet ways. Sitting close between them, I felt safe.
Years later, I came across Christian Science and began practicing its healing teachings. I learned about what I’d glimpsed in my grandparents’ warm embrace: that lasting harmony isn’t dependent on physical circumstances. In fact, it is found in God, divine Love. Christian Science, the universal and impartial law of God—the Science of being—teaches that we are all one people: God’s spiritual offspring, safe in His law of harmony. There is no division, separation, or brokenness in God, infinite good.
Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer of Christian Science, writes, “One infinite God, good, unifies men and nations; constitutes the brotherhood of man; ends wars; fulfils the Scripture, ‘Love thy neighbor as thyself;’ ...” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 340). Demonstrating this, little by little, starts with each of us learning to live this meek and mighty Christian love in our daily lives, consciously and humbly yielding to divine Love. We can hold to the spiritual impetus that counteracts willfulness, frustration, and anger—Christ, God’s message of love for all.
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