All A Christian Science Perspective
- Finding immunity from sickness
After contracting a contagious skin condition, a woman found that welcoming God’s perfect love into one’s heart lifts fear, protects, and heals.
- Can our prayers reduce racial tension?
It can sometimes feel as if there’s little we can do to make a difference in healing the world’s problems. But as a woman experienced firsthand while witnessing a racial conflict, the desire to see others as God does has healing effect.
- 100%
Numerical predictions can sometimes feel overwhelming or frightening. But opening our hearts to the wholeness of God and His entire creation allows God’s healing, saving light to shine through.
- Not afraid but not naive
Many are voicing their fears and worries about the coronavirus. But Christ, ever “voicing good,” is the divine influence that calms our fears, reveals our safety in God, and brings healing to our lives.
- In one affection
What if we all took a moment to pray to feel and express more of God’s love in our communities and our world, today – this year’s World Day of Prayer – and every day? Here’s an article that illustrates how powerful such prayer can be.
- Prayers that comfort and care
When disaster strikes, expressions of heartfelt caring go a long way. Prayer affirming God’s limitless love for all is a meaningful way to care for others, as an Australian woman experienced firsthand during and after the catastrophic bushfires in her country.
- You can’t be robbed of what God has given you
Searching for a way forward after the funds she’d brought on a business trip abroad were stolen, a woman turned to God for help – and experienced God’s care in tangible ways.
- Contributing to a better mental atmosphere
What might happen if we more often considered what kind of atmosphere we’re contributing to at home, at work, out running errands, or even at the polls? Wherever we find ourselves, each of us has a God-given ability to express kindness, compassion, and patience.
- Shielded from contagion during air travel
If we feel threatened by illness, we can open our hearts to healing, fear-dissolving inspiration from God.
- Quick healing of flu symptoms
In every season and wherever we may be, we all have an ability to feel and express our God-given joy and health.
- What sets the captive free?
The healing Christ that Jesus expressed is present at every moment to open the doors of thought and set us free from imprisoning ailments, even long-standing ones.
- Facing down fear
Illness, economic volatility, polarization and conflict, extreme weather events – reading the headlines, it can sometimes seem there’s little choice but to be afraid. But when we start from a spiritual basis, rather than judging what’s going on around us through the lens of materiality, we find that overcoming fear really is possible, opening the door to solutions and healing.
- Stopping contagious fear and disease
Each of us has a God-given ability to know and feel our true nature as the pure, peaceful, and whole children of God.
- A healing response to extremism
The hatred, anger, and fear that fuel extremism can seem unstoppable. But as a community experienced when the threat of a violent demonstration loomed, there’s something more powerful: God’s limitless love, which brings healing peace to light.
- A Bible in ... the kitchen?
It may seem an unusual place to keep a Bible. But the Bible in her kitchen is one woman’s “most utilized ‘recipe book,’” offering inspiration that comforts, guides, and heals.
- Inspired leadership
Sometimes qualities of good leadership can seem elusive. But a humble desire to follow God’s leading empowers us to demonstrate more trustworthy, wise, and grace-filled leadership.
- Remaining poised, steady, and upright
When a woman injured her ankle while working at a summer camp, she took a stand for her true nature as the offspring of divine Spirit – and healing followed.
- We can make a difference
Sometimes a perception of uncertainty in today’s world can make a desire to better it feel futile; yet many people are finding ways to make a difference. For all of us, a heartfelt desire to live the Love that is God brings the healing, saving light of God to our activities in tangible ways, as a woman experienced during a threatening situation.
- Lost and found
When her family’s cat went missing, a woman’s prayers were empowered by the idea that the true essence, or substance, of God’s creatures can never be lost. The outcome? Tangible evidence of the truth of that idea.
- Thinking for ourselves
How can we challenge the tendency to follow or believe something unthinkingly? By turning directly to God, the divine Mind that invigorates thought with fresh inspiration, wisdom, and even healing.