A Daily Lift by Bobby Lewis, CS
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In this brief podcast Bobby describes how practising spiritual Mindfulness made him aware of the healing presence that was with him in that and every moment. This realisation brought about an instant healing. He relates how statements in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy took on new meaning in that moment.
A Daily Lift by Amy Richmond, CS
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In this short podcast Amy, who is a full-time Christian Science healer, tells how she overcame a debilitating pain that limited her movement. She describes how spiritualising her thought about herself led to a quick recovery.
A Daily Lift by Kate Mullane Robertson.
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In this brief podcast Kate describes how she learned that even pre-schoolers can heal – it’s a matter of getting self out of the way and listening. The instant healing that resulted set her thinking anew about prayer.
A Daily Lift by Andrea McCormack
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In this short podcast Andrea describes how hearing a story about a wedgetail eagle in Australia taking down an expensive drone gave her pause for thought. She realised that she also could say NO to unwanted thoughts and situations: “You don’t belong here. I’m not afraid of you!” She goes on to describe how this reasoning helped her to quickly overcome a debilitating physical condition.
The members of the Christian Science community in Canberra share their healings and thoughts on Christian Science:
A poem by Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, helped this writer over come the stress of a crowded work agenda. The poem, titled Satisfied, has been set to music and included in the Christian Science Hymnal.
It matters not what be thy lot,
So Love doth guide;
For storm or shine, pure peace is thine,
Whate’er betide.
And of these stones, or tyrants’ thrones,
God able is
To raise up seed — in thought and deed —
To faithful His.
Aye, darkling sense, arise, go hence!
Our God is good.
False fears are foes — truth tatters those,
When understood.
Love looseth thee, and lifteth me,
Ayont hate’s thrall:
There Life is light, and wisdom might,
And God is All.
The centuries break, the earth-bound wake,
God’s glorified!
Who doth His will — His likeness still —
Is satisfied.
Towards the end of my employment with the Department of Education. I had a very busy job; most weeks I put in 50-60 hours and still didn’t feel on top of the workload. One evening a friend gave me a ticket to a Music Aviva concert because he thought I could do with a break. However, my head was so filled with all the tasks I had to complete in the next few weeks that I heard nothing of the music and went home feeling still very much under pressure. At home I sat down and made a list of all the activities I had to organise before the end of the school term which was coming up fast. I thought this might help clear my head. In all I had 26 events to organise. Some were staff meetings I had to give, others were full day workshops and training days, some were mediation and review meetings. I had very little clerical support so all of the organisation fell to me – the catering, the bookings, the paperwork, the course content.
Writing it all down didn’t help at all. While I was doing this my son called me. He was living interstate at the time. He asked if I would pray for him with regard to a physical problem that was restricting him somewhat. Of course I was happy to help him, but it felt like just one more thing that was asked of me.
In desperation I turned to God and asked: ‘How do I do all this?’ The answer was very firm: ‘You don’t. I do.’ This idea had and immediate calming effect. I felt led to open my hymnal to hymn 160 – Mary Baker Eddy’s Satisfied. The words were like a balm to my soul. The ideas held such comfort that straight away I felt the sense of pressure drain away. I knew I was safe because “God able is”. I realised that all right activities were God’s activities, and He was the one that brought them to fruition, not me.
It was the fourth verse that particularly stood out to me:
Love looseth thee, and lifteth me,
Ayont hate’s thrall:
There Life is light, and wisdom might,
And God is All.
As I read these words I felt lifted above the human picture that said I had an impossibly crowded agenda. I actually felt the lightness of Life – lightness as in not heavy. I also saw that Love loosed my son from his belief of restriction. I was able to let all sense of personal responsibility go and rested in God’s love.
The next day I had a phone call from my son to say the physical problem was completely resolved. He was very pleased. All the activities I had scheduled were completed successfully and I can honestly say there was not a moment of pressure or stress. Every event or activity was a joy in its preparation and unfoldment. Not since that night have I ever felt pressure over human activities or schedules again. Always now I know that ‘Love doth guide’ and ‘God is gloried’ and I am satisfied.
A Daily Lift by Deborah Heubsch
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In this short podcast Deborah tells how a lesson in learning to listen helped her to overcome the great fear she felt when her beloved horse was reported to have a broken leg. She tells how losing the fear ushered in the healing.
A Daily Lift by Lona Ingwerson, a Christian Science Practitioner
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In this 3 minute podcast Lona describes how the science of healing is the enactment of divine law. It doesn’t matter whether the problem is humanly small or large the same law is governing and equally applicable.
A couple of weeks ago I was looking at this Canberra blog site and found a list of testimonies. The first one caught my attention because it featured chooks and I love chooks. The testifier told of gathering eggs from her chook run and then stepping on to a rusty nail amidst the chook manure. She became quite fearful having heard of the claims of tetanus. She then explained how she came to a healing conclusion as a result of her life-long study of Christian Science
A couple of days later I was walking around the house in socks and I felt a sharp pain in my foot. There was a rusty needle embedded in it. My thoughts went on fast forward. Then I thought, “what about that testimony you read?’ I read it again and gradually the fear began to subside but lingered a little.
The next day I joined a Zoom testimony meeting at the Christian Science church in Redcliffe, Queensland. A lady told of pruning roses and of a thorn becoming embedded in her arm. It looked quite ominous but she prayed diligently and after a few days all was well. After listening to that testimony all fear completely vanished.
The next day my cat came home with a battered face and there were puncture wounds. He had obviously been in a fight. I couldn’t take him to the vet as I didn’t have use of a car. I got some water and cotton wool and he pushed me away as if to say, “You’re not washing my face!” I said to him this has all been proven, well and truly – by the testifiers in Canberra and in Redcliffe and my own experience and you are not the exception to the rule. The next morning he went out and was gone all day and didn’t come back till after dark. It was apparent that the healing was going forward quickly and in no time there was no evidence of the wound.
Thanks to your church for putting the testimonies on your web site. Thanks to the testifiers from your church and Redcliffe and for my own healing. And thanks to Gussy for being proof that “All of God’s creatures moving in the harmony of Science are harmless, useful, indestructible.” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p514)
Wednesday Testimony Meeting readings
This recording is of the readings on the topic: Miracles – Divine Law in Action
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The miracle introduces no disorder, but unfolds the primal order, establishing the Science of God’s unchanging law.
There is to-day danger of repeating the offence of the Jews by limiting the Holy One of Israel and asking: “Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?” What cannot God do?
(Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy p134)
I had to learn humility the hard way! I was ice-skating with my granddaughter one evening. I am not a very good skater and I was doing my best to keep up speed and glide. At one point I noticed that the rink was populated with young people, and a little pride crept in that I was out there even though I am a grandmother.
Well, a few more turns around the rink and then down I went. My wrist was badly hurt.
My go-to in times of need has always been prayer. In this case, a wake-up call about pride was my biggest take-away from my prayers. After about two weeks, I could still not move my wrist. Then, one day in humble prayer, it came to me that all of us out there on the ice were children of God, expressing the joy, strength, and energy of divine Life. Our true nature is not defined by a certain age and personal abilities. Instead, it appears in our reflection of God’s qualities.
I was very humbled by this thought. In his book “Mere Christianity,” C. S. Lewis, the Christian apologist, refers to pride as “the complete anti-God state of mind.” It suggests the possibility of a selfhood or ego apart from God, the one true Ego. It is a way of thinking that denies the onliness and allness of infinite good.
Click here to continue reading, or listen to, this article by Elizabeth Crecelius Schwartz published in the Christian Science Monitor Daily. In it Elizabeth describes more of the thinking that then led to a quick and complete healing of the injured wrist.
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