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A foundation for trust

Lisa Rennie Sytsma

God, Love, did not ask Jesus, and does not ask us, to give blanket trust to any person or human institution, though Love does give us the wisdom and discernment to recognize when trust is warranted—or not.
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Asking the right questions

Karen Neff

It dawned on me that I was listening to the wrong voice. I needed to stop accepting the false evidence of the physical senses as reliable and instead listen to Christ, Truth, for the facts about my health, which is forever perfect in God. 
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True employment

Ken Cooper

Straightway I leave my net and follow Christ.
I’ve changed my job, and now …
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Infinite Mind led me to . . . an ant hill?

David Martin

The issues before me were deeper than I had ever faced before, and there seemed to be inadequate time to design a solution.
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Living grace each day

Diane Dailey

Through study and practice of Christian Science, we can do much to heal the lack of grace in our world, starting with our own lives.
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When my best friend spread rumors about me

Holly Bell

I found I truly could rely on God to give me the strength and courage to go back to school and to provide me with great friends.
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Can I pray for my friends who aren’t Christian Scientists?

Amanda Kamau

When her friend wasn’t feeling well, this author rememberd a healing she’d had. Read on to find out how reflecting on the spiritual ideas that helped her also ended up helping her friend.
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Where is God in scary situations?

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Holy surrender

Robert Tomlinson

I yield to eternal Truth
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Exercising divine control over the body

Evan Mehlenbacher

In truth, the body is never out of control. It manifests whatever state of thought is governing it.
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Testimony of Healing

Praying in the “fourth watch”

Mary Reynolds

I was healed through full assurance in my spiritual perfection as God’s, Spirit’s, unblemished child and have remained so.
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Freed from fear of heights

Amy Swick

I had unknowingly gotten used to the fear of heights lurking in my thought and felt much lighter when it was gone.
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Turning to God brings quick healing

Elease Amaker

This healing has solidified my trust in Christian Science and helped me get beyond the belief that I didn’t know how to heal because I was still fairly new to Christian Science.
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Doctrine of Atonement

April 15–21, 2024

Each of Jesus’ assertions underscores God’s approval of all that Jesus says and does.
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Lorraine Mahon, Robert L. Snyder, Kim Cromwell

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“Start where you are . . .

Ethel A. Baker

Our prayers today are a form of the leaven of Truth that the world needs. And we can start right where we are, no matter how daunting world issues may seem. We can begin with a single thought—because if we’re thinking about something in the world, we can be praying about it.
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We don’t own good

Suzanne Riedel

As we increasinglylet go of outlining how our needs should be met, our trust in God grows, and we are able to relinquish fears and human expectations.
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Like trees

Barb Goodspeed Grant

how like 
trees 
we are“rooted and grounded” …
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God has the “very best plan of all”

Monique Hertgen

Whenever there seems uncertainty concerning the future, we can trust in the all-knowing Mind, which answers every need.
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Safe from danger

Maryann McKay

To demonstrate the fact that safety for all was assured because it was maintained by God, it was vital to see that God was the only power operating and that God was the only presence.
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I kept praying until all my fear was gone

Ethan

I know that God, who is Love, takes care of me and never stops.
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Can I pray for my friends who aren’t Christian Scientists?

Amanda Kamau

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Holy surrender

Robert Tomlinson

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Exercising divine control over the body

Evan Mehlenbacher

In truth, the body is never out of control. It manifests whatever state of thought is governing it.
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Spiritual growth brings victory

Laurel Marquart

I looked at my hands, and they were completely clear—no trace of warts! I was amazed and sat there silently praising God during the rest of the church service.
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Quick recovery after a fall

Valerie Minard

I was able to walk home unaided, and the next day I walked my usual distance of four to five miles.
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Skiing injury healed

Sara Lang

When concern set in that this was a serious injury, a still, small voice in my thought reminded me, “What cannot God do?” I hadn’t felt this close to Him in a long time.
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Probation After Death

April 22–28, 2024

Salvation is an enduring theme in Scripture, celebrated throughout Hebrew history. 
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Kate Gibson Oswald, Bob Minnocci, Barb Johnson

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Can we undistract our prayer time?

Tony Lobl

In seeing that we can have only the identity God made, we recognize that the resistance to spiritual growth calling itself distractedness is nothing more than an imposition on us.
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God’s embrace silences anger

Manette Fairmont

Keeping calm in the midst of conflict allows us to listen for the voice of divine Truth and Love. This peaceful utterance reassures us, no matter what someone else says or does, that the essential goodness of our identity continues undisturbed and untouched. 
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Single mom

Suzanne Brown

The truth is that God’s creation is never on its own.
Through Love and its abundance
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Prayer is like feeding a bird

Annette Kreutziger-Herr

With stillness, patience, and presence, I am not missing anything. I am meeting new insights that arrive on the wings of inspiration. I experience fresh hope, and welcome with an open heart the healing ideas that bring mental and physical transformation.
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Truth still sets free

Melissa Hayden

It may seem that technology, which is so often helpful in improving our lives but can also be used for criminal and hurtful purposes, far outstrips Jesus’ methods. But, in fact, the truth that Jesus preached and practiced is still fully effective in this age.
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What’s so bad about identifying yourself with a star sign?

Julia Schuck

I decided that if I was going to let something determine my identity, I needed to feel completely good about it. Astrology didn’t give me that. So I knew there had to be another way. 
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Can I pray for my friends who aren’t Christian Scientists?

Amanda Kamau

When her friend wasn’t feeling well, this author rememberd a healing she’d had. Read on to find out how reflecting on the spiritual ideas that helped her also ended up helping her friend.
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Where is God in scary situations?

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Holy surrender

Robert Tomlinson

I yield to eternal Truth
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Exercising divine control over the body

Evan Mehlenbacher

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Testimony of Healing

Effects of accident healed

Caitlin Sheasley

Later that day, my hearing was completely normal, and I noticed that the pain in my head and neck was gone, too.
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Instantly free from cold symptoms

Heidi Caswell Zander

Holding to these solid and clear spiritual ideas, I finished my painting. All signs of the cold disappeared. Nothing of the condition lingered.
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God’s unfailing care on a hike

Joan Miller with contributions from Lori Larsen

My daughter asked if I realized how steep the descent had been and that there had been no apparent reason for my fall to stop.
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Matter

March 18–24, 2024

Moving or reducing mountains was an ancient image for overcoming great difficulties or obstacles.
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Judy DeNoyer, Iris Roumiantsev

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The ever-present hope of Easter

Lisa Rennie Sytsma

Christ is forever risen, is here. Let it lift you, too—and enable you to follow.
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Easter lessons in the desert

Heike Arneth

When I see Jesus’ teachings, deeds, and resurrection as based on the divine universal Principle of all being, it gives me hope—the hope that every person can be moved to let the belief that existence is material yield to the understanding of Life as spiritual and eternal.
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The anointing that unburdens us

Laura Lapointe

The profoundly beautiful promise of this Christly oil is that it is here for everyone. It is not reserved for a physical ritual anointing royalty or religious officials. The oil of anointing is plentiful and present every moment to destroy whatever yoke seems to be binding us.
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“Church isn’t for me”

Kelly Conedera

I didn’t want to be lukewarm in my devotion to God. This shifted church attendance for me from a duty to a desire.
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Image and Inspiration

For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.—Isaiah 61:11
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Easter every day

Sara Hoagland Hunter

A poem to celebrate Easter!
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Can I pray for my friends who aren’t Christian Scientists?

Amanda Kamau

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Where is God in scary situations?

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Holy surrender

Robert Tomlinson

I yield to eternal Truth
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Exercising divine control over the body

Evan Mehlenbacher

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Testimony of Healing

Delivered from depression

Name Withheld

I knew that God, divine Mind, would always be with me, right where I was, knowing everything real about me.
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Moving freely again

Klaus Herm

The healing came steadily. One Sunday I was able to drive to church and walk in. 
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Shoulder healed and legal matter resolved

Karin Holser

I realized I again had full use of both arms. I knew I was healed, and I rejoiced. Shortly after this, the legal issue was resolved harmoniously in an unexpected way, to the benefit of all.
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Reality

March 25–31, 2024

“Peace with God” points to reconciliation—an end to feeling hostile to or separate from God.
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Elizabeth Dawn, Stephen Riddle, Cheryl Hemphill, Deborah Caserotti

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Stepping out of chaos

Rich Evans

In order to be free of the exhaustion of inharmony, it is natural—spiritually innate—for us to seek something else, to reverse direction, to move toward safer, more peaceful ground. 
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Standing among children of God

Laurie Toupin

While my husband called the police, I stood between the two groups and prayed.
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Holy joy

Deb Hensley

God-sourced joy is constant. There’s not one news report that can get under its skin, not one anxious thought, threatening storm, or terror that can shake it.
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Leaping words

Kit Cornell Kurtz

the poet understands
that writing is 
            not simply
                        thinking thoughts
                        delving deep
                        watching words
            but …
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Church and the demonstration of supply

Vasti Alves de Oliveira

My branch Church of Christ, Scientist in Rio de Janeiro was dealing with limited supply and had to confront fear, expect good, and obey the inspirations that unfolded through prayer.
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I was healed of bipolar disorder

Andy Crump

Sadness seemed so appealing at the time because it allowed me to be a victim and blame the world for my problems. I realized, though, that I did want to be happy.
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Can I pray for my friends who aren’t Christian Scientists?

Amanda Kamau

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Holy surrender

Robert Tomlinson

I yield to eternal Truth
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Exercising divine control over the body

Evan Mehlenbacher

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Protected from contagion

Carol L. Niederbrach

I’m grateful for the ability we all have to defend ourselves through prayer from beliefs regarding illness, and for the fact that we can include our loved ones and others in this prayer as well. 
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Upright, whole, and free

Fenna Corry

I looked back through a journal I keep that chronicles my healings and spiritual progress. The review brought renewed inspiration.
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Grandson’s earache healed

Debbie Peck

I prayed confidently, knowing that God’s law of good was governing my grandson and that all he could experience was good.
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Unreality

April 1–7, 2024

God guarantees transformation and renewal in the midst of barrenness.
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Cheryl Mailer, Judi Lindsey, Deanna Shelley

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The health you always include

Thomas Mitchinson

Whatever seems dormant, or even nonexistent, in our lives now—happiness, opportunity, or health—can come to full bloom through the power of God’s love.
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You are God’s masterpiece

Christine Driessen

The understanding that we are already God’s exquisite masterpiece frees us to fulfill our role as sculptors, “moulding and chiseling thought” to remove whatever does not express the Christ-man.
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Before Him on the mountains 
Shall Peace, the herald, go; 
From hill to vale the fountains 
Of righteousness shall flow.—James Montgomery, Christian Science Hymnal, No. 75, © CSBD
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Overcoming resistance to spiritual progress

Richard Schaberg

Each of us is divinely endowed with an inherent spiritual sense, including the ability and willingness to understand how to move forward spiritually.
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Persuasion

James Walter

The senses
plead with words that sway;
they have …
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What are you waiting for?

Katherine Stephen

If we are waiting for something that we believe we lack, it’s useful to instead be open to waiting on God, who has already supplied the need, though it may not yet have been understood or perceived.
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Can I pray for my friends who aren’t Christian Scientists?

Amanda Kamau

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Holy surrender

Robert Tomlinson

I yield to eternal Truth
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Exercising divine control over the body

Evan Mehlenbacher

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I prayed at school and was healed

Lily

I started my prayer again, and this time I thanked God for everything He has given me. 
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Normal functioning of knee restored

Seth Johnson

God is the only substance, and therefore, Spirit is the substance of my life. There are no material body parts to be healthy or unhealthy. 
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Prayer heals effects of fall

Cicely LaBastie Gallagher

To say that I am grateful for the power of God’s Word is an understatement! During the many decades that I’ve studied and practiced Christian Science, my life has been sustained and blessed by the truths I’ve been learning.
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Prayer dissolves pain

Justice Kwaku Anumu

Within a few days I was able to lift my arm and resume my normal activities, including playing tennis with my daughter.
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Listening to God

Kelly Byquist

The healing was immediate. I was back to being engaged with the group, alert, clear, upright, and free. The rest of the meal was a joy; after supper we went for a 45-minute walk, and my every step was effortless.
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Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real?

April 8–14, 2024

To wait on God is to expect His help without reservation or doubt.
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Janet Sherwood, Jeffrey Jones, Uta Kühnast

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