Anna - Christian Science Sentinel, Dec. 3, 2007
Ever since I was little, I’ve loved snakes. When I was four, a woman in front of us in a pet store check-out line was carrying a huge snake. I started petting it because it seemed to like me.
The woman turned and started to tell my mom to keep away because the snake supposedly didn’t like strangers. When she saw that her snake was enjoying my attention, she was speechless. After that experience, I began to want a snake of my own. To me, there is something fascinating about them. I think they are very beautiful, graceful, and loving. I’ve learned in Christian Science that everything God creates expresses good and beautiful qualities.
Ian - Christian Science Sentinel, July 23-30, 2007
One day at school, our gym class had some free time to play a bunch of different sports. Some of the guys in the gym were playing dodge ball, throwing rubber playground balls at each other. I was standing near a concrete wall, and a ball flew toward me, hitting my hand against the wall pretty hard.
Brian Simpson - The Christian Science Journal, March, 2008
About a month ago I had a friend over. As we were going for a walk down my street, we began talking about parties and how nowadays, for it to be a good party you have to have alcohol. I told her that I really wanted to have a party at my house, but the one thing I was worried about was that I’d have to have alcohol for anyone to come. That’s when Christian Science came up. She asked me, “So, have you ever had a drink?” I said, “No, actually, I haven’t.” I told her that it wasn’t something I get into because of my religion, Christian Science. I’m always making jokes, and at first she thought I was trying to make something up, but I told her, “No, really, I’m a Christian Scientist.”
by Pamela Cook
Recently NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams ran a special series called “The Mind-Body Connection.” It’s not hard to find evidence of a widespread desire to understand this connection. A Google search yields 47.1 million hits on “mind-body,” including 105 news stories in a single month (April 9 — May 9, 2008), and Amazon.com lists 6,641 books on the subject.
Gwen B. - Christian Science Sentinel, July 23–30, 2007
When I was in fifth grade, my class had a picnic at a lake near our school. Beyond the groomed lawns and the picnic tables was a field of very tall, uncut grass. A friend and I went there to play, gathering handfuls of the long-stemmed grass, waving them at one another, and generally romping about in it. When our teacher happened by, she casually commented, “I’m glad neither of you has allergies.”
by Keith Wommack
» Rejoice in perfect God and perfect man. Cherish the majesty and might of God and the dignity and soundness of God’s spiritual idea, man. (See Science and Health, p. 259.)
» Erase the fear of the patient as well as your own anxiety. God is Love and knows how to control and care for all His spiritual creation. Man is exempt from disease and danger. Delight in these facts. (See Science and Health, p. 411.)
James S. - The Christian Science Journal, Aug. ‘07
The Prayer That Heals Defining Christian Science treatment is a humbling task because its Principle—divine, eternal Love—is infinite, and therefore the outpouring of that Love has endless facets and limitless applications. Treatment is—must be—always fresh and new, like sunbeams pouring out of the sun. It can’t be stereotyped in any way. In fact, it’s not really Christian Science treatment if it even hints at ritual, thoughtless repetition, or formula.
Jane M. B. - The Christian Science Journal, Feb. 2006
During a bus tour in November 1999, I fell while carrying my luggage in a hotel. It was a hard fall and so painful that I felt it wise to go to the emergency room. The diagnosis was a broken shoulder.
by Pamela Cook
It was the first sunny, dry day in weeks, so I took the cordless phone out to the deck to settle into my Adirondacks chair and listen to my friend. She really needed to talk about a relationship problem she was having. Just as I sat down, a bee flew directly into the corner of my eye and stung me. I was startled, and the pain was excruciating. Right away, I turned my attention to God, expecting from past experience that the fear I felt welling up in me would dissolve under the influence of all-powerful Love.
Heather H. - the Christian Science Sentinel, July 2, 2007
A few summers ago, I was a counselor at a summer camp for Christian Scientists.
One evening, my cabin of six middle-school-aged girls went bumper tubing on the lake—a water sport where you ride in a tube that’s attached by a rope to a powerboat. The girls were having a great time, laughing as they took turns in the tube and enthusiastically bumping along the waves. After everyone had had a turn, my co-counselor and I decided to take a ride together.
