Month: December 2017

These are healings that we’re having!

(Thanks, Jo, for sharing ! Love your bright smile!)

Just wanted to share the dearest example of Love’s care and comfort —

For one reason or another, it had been almost a year since I had been to the dentist, and when a cancellation came up at my dentist’s office, I was happy to run over and get my teeth cleaned. As the hygienist began to do her thing, it seemed that the procedure was not going to be as easy we both would like. When it got to be painful, I just turned to God to ask him what I can feel, really. Right away, the words from a familiar hymn came to thought — “I feel the calm and joy of things immortal…”.  (Hymn 64: From Sense to Soul…)

I was immediately comforted, and another phrase came to mind — “calm and exalted thought, or spiritual apprehension.” That is part of a statement from Science and Health  on page 506:11-12, …”The calm and exalted thought, or spiritual apprehension is at peace.” I thought for a moment about spiritual apprehension, and what that meant in that moment. My thought was led to consider the what was true about man as God’s expression, rather than the suggestion of an unpleasant experience.

Really, just a moment or two passed before I was completely comfortable and pain free. I smiled that sweet smile of gratitude when I realized that even the hygienist was more comfortable. Her touch was lighter on my jaw, and she was more relaxed. And there was not one more moment of pain or discomfort as she completed her task!

I am so grateful for Christian Science!

Jo Scoville

Happy Thanksgiving full of God’s love!

Thanks, Kit Kurtz, for posting this lovely piece!

We have a beautiful dining table. When the two leaves are added it seats eight people, ten if you double up on the ends. My mother and I would search for friends and acquaintances that needed a place to share gratitude and Thanksgiving dinner. We were usually able to fill the table.

My mother had passed on earlier in the year so I was on my own to carry on our tradition. I had invited people at church and although I hadn’t heard back from everyone it looked like a full table again this year.

The weekend before Thanksgiving I was not feeling well, struggling with a runny nose and other cold symptoms. On Sunday I really understood the service to be God’s and I was able to perform my job as Second Reader perfectly. But after church I seemed to be sneezy again. I tried to put aside worry about my ability to read Thanksgiving and make a 1pm dinner after church for everyone. I love the idea of worry being ingratitude in advance and I CERTAINLY did not want to be ungrateful AT THANKSGIVING!

Tuesday morning I went swimming in the ocean even though I still wasn’t feeling well. As I prayed and swam I was reminded that a Christian Science Teacher had once told my mother that a cold is a sense of feeling unloved. While I didn’t want to be formulaic about my prayers I decided to examine the idea that perhaps I was feeling unloved. I discovered that with the holiday coming up I was thinking a lot about my mother and missing her. Also, my daughter had just left after spending a beautiful visit with us and I was missing her too. A hymn popped into my thought that has the line “Come ye disconsolate where air ye languish.” At that moment I felt quite disconsolate. But the hymn is about coming to God’s everpresent love—a stanza ends with the line, “Earth has no sorrow that Love cannot cure.”

I also knew that feeling sad or unloved was not my nature. I know that all love comes from Mother /Father God and is expressed by her creation, man, but man is not the source. My mother and my daughter certainly expressed love that I felt and gave back but that love was always, is always from God. As I continued to pray, a beautiful sense of everpresent Love came over me. I held to that feeling of infinite Love’s tangible presence all day and also knew that that love was there and known by everyone wherever they were in the world. By the end of the day all symptoms of a cold had vanished.

Also, just after my beautiful prayerful swim, my son and I were invited to an evening Thanksgiving celebration. I accepted. All the people that I had invited to our dinner had accepted the invitation by Wednesday evening. I felt so very loved by God in the expression of the nineteen people at dinner. If you ask God for love you get abundance. I had a wonderful two Thanksgiving dinners surrounded by Love. And yes there was just enough turkey.