Are you a spiritual entrepreneur?
Recently a young boy stopped by our home on his way through the neighborhood. He wanted us to know he was available to do any inside or outside cleaning or chores. Although we didn’t have any work...
Church: A beacon for the ages
It might seem surprising that, after she discovered Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy did not move immediately to establish her church. Actually, she hoped none would be needed. And some years wou...
Denouncing modern hypnotism
An object going back and forth, back and forth, in front of someone’s face—that’s how I imagined hypnotism as a child when it would come up in the Christian Science Bible Lesson. The Lesson titled...
Investigating good
Yesterday morning I woke up with unusual joy. It was just there, and I was very grateful, but I didn’t think a lot about it.Then today, as I sit here, I remember a recent Sunday when I felt rested...
Freed from Severe Abdominal Pain
I am very grateful to share the following healing. It occurred on a Wednesday evening after returning home from serving as a substitute Reader for the testimony meeting at our local branch Church o...
An elevated view
I awoke early, before dawn, and was praying quietly near the window of my fifth-floor hotel room. As the morning light began to emerge, so did the cars onto the streets below. I began to watch...
A healing of vision
Mary Baker Eddy has this wonderful definition of eyes in her primary work, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: “Spiritual discernment,—not material but mental” (p. 586). I have had the g...
Happy are they …
Inspired by Matthew 5:3–12 Happy are they who know their need Of Truth—the rich, transforming leaven By which from bondage they are freedTo claim the joys of pres...
Quick recovery after auto accident
Two months before my high school sweetheart and I were to be married, a drunk driver ran a red light and smashed head-on into our car. Even though I was wearing a seatbelt, the impact dislodged the...
Financial limitations overcome
In the book of Acts, we read that “a certain man lame from his mother’s womb” was placed at the temple gate every day so he could spend the day begging worshipers for small gifts (see 3:1–11). Jesu...