An article from the Christian Science Monitor by Laura Clayton
Recently a relative said she had been feeling concerned about the future. She had been thinking about a possible move, wondering where and when she and her husband might settle next. We talked about the idea of living in God’s “now” – staying grounded in gratitude for today’s many blessings, joyfully being where we are right at the present moment. After our discussion, she said she immediately felt better, lighter, and more peaceful.
Christ Jesus assured his followers, “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself” (Matthew 6:34). The type of living in the present now that brings lasting peace and inspired solutions is not just some clever mental game. It’s a spiritual awakening based on the timeless spiritual fact of our unity with God, good.
In this article Laura goes on to explain the spiritual reasoning she used to find a perfect solution to a family member’s accommodation problem. She concludes: Each of us can wake up to the spiritual reality of today that helps bring a more harmonious tomorrow.
An article by Sharon Morash Brooks from the July 6 2020 Christian Science Sentinel
As the COVID-19 crisis deepened, I turned to Mary Baker Eddy’s short article titled “Contagion” (see Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896,pp. 228–229) for insight and inspiration. A number of years ago I read that article almost every day for over a year. I share this testimony in the hope that it will help others.
When my daughter started preschool, she and my husband brought home every contagious ailment that was going around and unwittingly shared them with her little brother and me. We toppled like dominoes. I was dismayed at what seemed an enormous challenge.
Click hereto read or listen to the full article in which Sharon describes the spiritual reasoning she employed to quickly dismiss this and other episodes of contagion that seemed to threaten the well-being of her family.
The members of the Christian Science community in Canberra share their experiences and thoughts on Christian Science:
Until last year Reggie was a member of our family. He was an elderly rescue dog. We loved him dearly and he lived with us long past his expected ‘use by’ date.
Gradually last year I noticed that he was slowing down and sleeping much of the time. I understand that animals don’t stay with us forever. They come and they bless us, and we them, and they move on. It was starting to feel like Reggie might be about to move on.
One Saturday morning he seemed to be in a long deep sleep. By lunch time it seemed that he was going. He couldn’t be roused and he had lost control of his bodily functions. I sat on the floor beside his bed and turned to God. “Tell me how to think about this,” I asked. Then the question came: “Is it the body that you love?” The answer was, of course, “No!” “Then what? What is it that you love?” I could see so clearly in that moment that this body was an irrelevance. Reggie was very real but he was not just this body.
I sat quietly and the inspirations came. I saw more clearly than I had ever done before, the immortality of life – life that was spiritual, eternal, untouched by matter and material claims. I was so absorbed in these thoughts and what God was teaching me that I forgot to notice the body lying beside me. My husband came to the door to see how he was going and Reggie lifted his head a little and opened his eyes. I offered him some water and he drank it. Within a few minutes he was sitting up. I offered him food which he ate and shortly after that he was up and around. The next day he was quiet but well and happy. By Monday he was urging us to take him for a walk and when we put him on the lead he was first out the door at a run.
Reggie did leave us later that year. Until he went he was well and active and lost none of his faculties. This time when it seemed that he was going I asked God: “What do I need to know about this?” The answer was different. “You know who Reggie is. You have seen this. Trust it. Now is the time to let him go. You don’t need to hang onto the body because you know that it is not the real him!” When he left there were times when I missed him, but I can honestly say I was never sad about his absence. I knew so well that nothing had changed. He was still Reggie – the same gentle, loving giant he had always been. I knew that God was still caring for him just as tenderly.
I look to thee in every need, and never look in vain;
I feel Thy touch, eternal Love, and all is well again: …
Thy hand in all things I behold, And all things in Thy hand.
Thou leadest me by unsought ways, Thou turn’st my mourning into praise.
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When a seemingly vicious flu-like condition passed through my children’s school district, my daughter came home from high school one day with the symptoms. As I helped her into bed, a most comforting poetic phrase I was familiar with came to mind: “It shall not come nigh thee” (Psalms 91:7 ).
I knew from experience that the Bible’s promises and words of guidance were not for ancient times alone, nor for only one particular group of people. Rather, God’s infinite ability to help applies to everyone, in all times.
So we immediately turned to God in prayer. …
… When my daughter awoke the next morning, she was completely well—so much so that she was welcomed back at school. No one else in our house was infected.
This article, titled: “It Shall Not Come Nigh Thee“ by Laurie Toupin, was originally published in the May 11 2020 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel.
Click here to read the full text of the article where Laurie explains how she prayed about this situation and how her prayers brought a sense of peace that resulted in perfect health.
Take away wealth, fame, and social organizations, which weigh not one jot in the balance of God, and we get clearer views of Principle. Break up cliques, level wealth with honesty, let worth be judged according to wisdom, and we get better views of humanity.
The members of the Christian Science community in Canberra share their experiences and thoughts on Christian Science:
Two years ago on a Monday afternoon Canberra was struck by a hailstorm of such ferocity that thousands of cars were destroyed and buildings severely damaged. I was working on this day and had to deliver meeting documents to Government House in Canberra.
On my way out of the grounds of Government House the security guard at the gate let me know there was a big storm brewing and asked if I would be all right driving. I assured him I would be fine.
Before I got to the turn-off, the storm broke and hail came pelting down. My first thought was perhaps I should turn around but I decided to carry on. When I reached the road which leads onto the main road, I noticed both sides were packed with parked cars, even on the nature strip and there was no place for my car. I thought I might carry on slowly to the main road.
Suddenly there was a loud bang against the car door and I thought I might have run into another car. When I looked towards my mirror there was only an object which I did not recognise for a moment but then I realised it was the mirror holder without a mirror. A strong gust of wind must have blown it against the door which caused the bang.
I was becoming a little rattled, when a thought from the textbook of Christian Science, Science and Health with Key to the Scripturesby Mary Baker Eddy came to mind, page 469: “We bury the sense of infinitude, when we admit that, although God is infinite, evil has a place in this infinity, for evil can have no place where all space is filled with God”. I am God’s protected child, and I am surrounded by God within this perfect space where evil and inharmony cannot enter.
Another thought came to me from the Christian Science Hymnal, hymn 148, “In heavenly Love abiding, no change my heart shall fear; and safe is such confiding for nothing changes here. The storm may roar about me, my heart may low be laid; but God is round about me, and can I be dismayed?”
With these thoughts I headed onto the main road; there was no other traffic but lots of hail, tree branches and twigs. I drove slowly to my place of work thinking on these wonderful God thoughts which calmed me and brought a sense of peace. I reached work unharmed and with no further damage to my car. I thanked God for His protection and guidance.
I feel privileged to be a member of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Canberra, and for duties I have been able to perform such as Second Reader, board membership, ushering and Reading Room attendant.
“To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever.”
This recording is of readings on the topic: Reality – Found in Matter or Mind?
Metaphysics is above physics, and matter does not enter into metaphysical premises or conclusions. The categories of metaphysics rest on one basis, the divine Mind. Metaphysics resolves things into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense for the ideas of Soul. …
Every Wednesday at 6.15pm a Testimony Meeting is held at the Christian Science church in Canberra (corner of Macquarie and Bligh Streets, Barton). At these meetings short readings on a particular topic are followed by time for members of the congregation to share how they have been helped and healed through prayer.
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