Archive for August 2024

The Love of God   Leave a comment

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. …

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear:

(The Bible KJV – I John 4: 16, 18)

Brotherhood of Man   1 comment

“Love one another” (I John, iii. 23), is the most simple and profound counsel of the inspired writer.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p5172:16)

The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother’s need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another’s good.

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p518:15)

Love One Another   2 comments

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

(The Bible KJV – I Colossians 3: 12-14)

True Motives   1 comment

(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p326:20-21)

Are You Buying It   Leave a comment

An article by Jenny Sawyer published in the January 27, 2020 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel.

The girl on my Instagram story was eating a special brand of crackers, and I was intrigued—not so much by the crackers, but by her toned physique and apparently charmed existence. On my next trip to the grocery store, I got a box of these crackers for myself. And when I ripped open the package to try them, I had to admit they were good … but they didn’t give me the girl’s “perfect” life.

Because really, on some level, that’s why I’d bought the crackers: I wanted to believe that following in that girl’s footsteps might get me just a little more of what she had—and what I didn’t. Of course, I knew rationally that eating the same food as some girl on social media wasn’t going to give me the life I was imagining. Yet  … Click here to continue reading, or to listen to, this article.