As individual expressions of the one infinite Mind, we are each created with a specific sense of purpose and direction we are intended to pursue in our lives. For one it may be the love of creative expression, for another something completely different. Yet for each of us, it is absolutely unique and God-given.

We may start out searching for our sense of worth from the approval of others, not knowing where our true sense of satisfaction comes from. We may crave love from sources outside of the one ever-present I AM. Yet, for each of us, in one way or another we all must ultimately discover where our real sense of satisfaction comes from. (more…)

What I remember about seventh grade is finding myself in a new school about five times as big as I’d ever known—I was stumped by algebra, and the girl who wanted to help me get through that class was my only friend. Neither of us were cool, and she didn’t care, but I longed to be accepted by the in-crowd. But every attempt to connect with them ended up in some awful embarrassment. It was a painful time of learning how to make friends and how to be a friend.

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Melanie – Christian Science Sentinel, April 6, 2009

After graduating from college, I purchased a one-way ticket to Washington, DC. I’d studied political science and was interested in exploring career opportunities in the nation’s capital.

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A story of a young artist named Westen as told by CARLY ROSE JACKSON – The Christian Science Journal, Jan. 2009

WESTEN MUNTAIN NEVER ASPIRED to become an artist.

“Smart people,” she jokes, “take one look at a career in the visual arts and run the other way!”

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by Jessica Ledbetter

I woke up on a Tuesday in January and felt old. It was my twenty-third birthday, and I’d been dreading it for weeks. No longer was I a teenager, testing out the waters of adulthood. No longer was I a college student, still new to the real world. I was a full-fledged adult, with bills and responsibilities like everyone else. But instead of being content with where I was and where my life was going, I felt like I was lagging behind, that I wasn’t up to scratch.

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Laurance R. Doyle – The Christian Science Journal, February 2008

Mary Baker Eddy wrote, “Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe.” She then continued, with what I think of as a definition of what her declaration means: “He [Jesus] plunged beneath the material surface of things, and found the spiritual cause” (Science and Health, p. 313). So apparently, being “scientific” is plunging beneath the material surface of things and finding the spiritual cause—the infinite, creative, divine Mind. But does this mean that Christian Scientists oppose scientific endeavors? And why would Mrs. Eddy have called her discovery of Jesus’ healing system “Christian Science” if we were not to be scientists of reality?

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Thursday night, I attended the live presentation of Sheila C. Johnson’s “A Powerful Noise” with my 12 year old daughter. I wanted her to have a larger sense of the world and what individuals can accomplish. The film follows three women from very different countries and backgrounds on three very different missions that have a common goal: the education and empowerment of women and girls.

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Sarah Andrews – The Christian Science Journal, Dec. 2007

I love the idea that God created us to fulfill a divine purpose, that God has appointed each of us to serve Him in a unique way, and that He needs us to do His work. But sometimes it can seem easy to fall into the trap of believing that we’re just not that special.

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Julie F. – Christian Science Sentinel, June 4, 2007

I didn’t realize my way of approaching my life-schedule was messed up . . . until my life-schedule got messed up.

My whole plan was to go to India to study abroad during my junior year of college. I’d jotted it down (with a permanent marker) on my mental calendar—about four years before the travel date —and fully intended to follow through with it. I admired the Indian students who passed me in class or on the subway. And I was appropriately in love with the idea of trekking through the country, seeing the colorful Hindu prayer flags, and eating naan (traditional flatbread). 

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by Kendra Scott

I thought I’d share how I ended up in Boston doing this music internship after expecting to be at acting school in Chicago for the next four years. Maybe this will help someone in a place of transition—looking for direction.

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