All A Christian Science Perspective
- Father’s Day every day
Fathering isn’t confined to dads and kids; everyone can feel and express the love of our divine Father, which inspires, strengthens, and heals.
- Learning languages with love
An understanding of God as Love and as the one divine Mind brings freedom from limiting beliefs about one’s capacity to communicate effectively.
- Building harmonious relationships
Community is a vital aspect of life, as an article in today’s Monitor Daily indicates, speaking to the growing trend of group living. Here’s a spiritual take on nurturing harmony in one’s community, inspired by an individual’s experiences of living at the same place where she worked.
- The consciousness of Love, wherever we are
Faced with the prospect of immigration issues while working overseas, today’s contributor found that turning to God, divine Love, lifted her fear and paved the way for a harmonious outcome.
- When decisions feel beyond our control
With the need to decide the future relationship of the United Kingdom and the European Union extended for at least several more months, today’s contributor shares how she has been praying in response to the uncertainty surrounding Brexit.
- Enjoying more than just the game
Today’s contributor, an avid board gamer, shares how rethinking his motives at the game table from a spiritual perspective has brought a fuller sense of joy and satisfaction to his activities.
- No one is invisible
Moved by a news report on veterans and others without homes who too often feel invisible, today’s contributor considers a spiritual basis for seeing and feeling our and others’ God-given value and worth.
- Cleaning up our ‘issues’ through Christ
Drawing on her experience as a teacher in an educational program for migrants, today’s contributor shares how self-righteousness, pride, and other elements that would keep us from helping to better the world can be healed.
- Singing for joy
Inspired by a video of a multinational concert of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” – a piece that’s been played many times as a celebration of humanity’s innate desire for peace, including during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing – today’s contributor explores what it means to truly live Jesus’ command to “Love one another.”
- We are able
Each year The First Church of Christ, Scientist, has an Annual Meeting attended by members from around the world, in person and via video. This year, the meeting’s theme was “that we may be able,” which prompted today’s contributor to share this experience of healing.
- A hidden stream reveals a healing message
When her hands seized up and wouldn’t open, today’s contributor found peace and healing as she considered the idea that even when circumstances suggest otherwise, our God-given health cannot be altered.
- Made light
Here’s a poem that points to the divine light reflected in us all, which lifts burdens and inspires our lives.
- Staying ‘in a place of love’
When a co-worker’s animosity affected today’s contributor to the point of illness, she turned to God in prayer. The idea that we are all precious children of God, divine Love, opened the door to harmony and healing.
- Healed on a field trip
For today’s contributor, chaperoning a school trip became an occasion to not only learn about her nation’s capital, but experience God’s love and care in a tangible way.
- Commemorating unselfed love
For today’s contributor, an Anzac Day service last month and next week’s Memorial Day observance have prompted a deep dive into the power of a divinely impelled spirit of selflessness.
- Church indestructible
Today’s contributor, an admirer of great architecture, explores the idea of church as an unconfined, empowering, spiritual structure.
- ‘Keeping our head’ in the face of animosity
With European Parliament elections just around the corner, today’s contributor explores how seeing others the way God made them can help us keep our cool and foster harmony – even in contentious situations.
- Conflicting opinions, without conflict
When clashing political views threatened a longtime friendship, today’s contributor found that learning more about God as Love enabled her to nurture compassion and patience rather than anger and intolerance, and harmony was restored.
- When it looked as if we’d lose the company
Advised by his accountant that saving his business would be impossible, today’s contributor was struck with a conviction that God did not create anyone to toil, suffer, and fail, but instead to thrive and be joyful. Soon after came a business idea that turned the company around.
- no mote or beam
Here’s a poem pointing to everyone’s innate ability to express God’s light and love. The title refers to Jesus’ teaching about focusing on others’ “motes” – that is, judging them for their smaller faults – even as we ignore the much larger “beams,” or flaws, impacting our own ability to see clearly.