.
A Sentinel Watch podcast and Daily Lift by Beth Packer – The Daily Lift tells of a delightful and beautiful healing. If you like this short podcast, we invite you to listen to the whole interview, Of Course God Can Heal Me.
.
.
Daily Lift: My Children’s Prayers Healed Me
.
Sentinel Watch Podcast: Of Course God Can Heal Me – Beth Packer interviewed by David Brown.
A member of the Christian Science community in Canberra had this article and testimony published in the Christian Science Sentinel.
One day as Jesus was passing by a man who was blind from his birth, his disciples asked him whether the man was born blind because of his own sin or because of his parents’ sin. Jesus answered: “Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him” (John 9:3). Then Jesus healed the man of his blindness.
What this Bible passage means to me is that we are not punished for past errors. Even in situations where we initially allowed errors of thinking to go unchallenged, we can still correct our thought—and when we do, we can expect to be free of any bad effects. This rule is in fact the third tenet of Christian Science: “We acknowledge God’s forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health, p. 497).
An experience that we had in our family some years ago demonstrates this truth in an immediate, certain, and undeniable way. Continue reading …
As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you:
(The Bible KJV – Isaiah 66: 13)
.
.
Father-Mother is the name for Deity, which indicates His tender relationship to His spiritual creation.
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p332)
Spiritual love makes us conscious of our oneness with God and of the health, holiness, and life it brings.
This article by Janet Clements was published in the May 8 2023 issue of the Christian Science Sentinel. She writes:
One spring, robins nested on the ledge of our porch. We watched mother-love in action as the mama robin built the nest and hovered over her eggs. Then, after they hatched, she and the father bird both provided food, defended their young from intruders, and taught the fledglings to fly. That relationship of mother, father, and nestlings guaranteed all the care needed for their well-being. While this type of bi-parental care is common in most bird species, in 95 percent of mammal species, the female is the sole caregiver for the young. Across the wide diversity of life on our planet, it is inspiring to see the vital role of mother-love.
All love has its source in God, the one Father-Mother whose whole universe is the creative self-expression of perfect Love. This creation is entirely spiritual and without a single harmful element. Not only is Love the source of all creation, but it is also the mothering force that is the Life that rules the universe, graciously sustaining and tenderly cherishing all Her own, forever.
Click here to continue reading, or to listen to this article. Janet describes how a painful condition was healed when she recognised the Love that is God is always present and tenderly mothering us.
Wednesday Testimony Meeting Readings.
This recording is of the readings on the topic: God – Parent, Shepherd, Friend
God is Love (The Bible – I John 4: 8)
DIVINE LOVE ] is my shepherd; I shall not want.
[LOVE] maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
[LOVE] leadeth me beside the still waters.
[LOVE] restoreth my soul [spiritual sense]: [LOVE] leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for [LOVE] is with me; [LOVE’S] rod and [LOVE’S] staff they comfort me.
[LOVE] prepareth a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: [LOVE] anointeth my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house [the consciousness] of [LOVE] for ever.
(From the 23rd Psalm – Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p578)
A Daily Lift by Cathrine Hogg
.
In this short podcast, Never Fatherless, Cathrine describes how she learnt to recognise the fatherhood qualities of God all around her and how this took away a sense of loss. It also helped her to gain a higher sense of motherhood and in fact enriched all her relationships when she saw them in this new light as qualities of God.
A Daily Lift by Susan Booth Mack Snipes, a Christians Science practitioner and teacher
.
In this short podcast Susan talks about how realising God as the source of all right ideas helped her to see through a problem her teenage daughter was having with peers who were shutting her out of their friendship circle.
A Daily Lift by Bethany Taylor
.
In this short podcast Bethany describes how learning to understand God as Mother brings comfort and reassurance at any time in life.
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
(The Bible – Psalm 23: 1-6)
Christian Science Canberra 