About a month ago, I had a grueling time at the dentist with the first part of installing a crown. A practitioner who is a member of our Association was a huge help.

Yesterday I returned to the dentist to have the crown placed permanently, and the practitioner again helped. The dentist said my crown was perfect…

At the end of February, I spoke with a friend who works at the local YMCA. This friend had been ill for most of the winter and still was not feeling completely well. She told me how difficult it had been for her because pneumonia and “one thing after another” had left her feeling weak and vulnerable. She said to me, “It’s a terrible feeling not being able to do anything to counteract sickness, except pray that the medicine will work!”

Last summer I tried to help a college friend in her search for a Yorkie puppy by giving her contact information for an out-of-state breeder. After some months, she went forward with the purchase of a puppy from this source. She named the puppy “Moonbeam.”

This past year has provided such opportunity to share Christian Science with others! Many have requested I pray for them—some not even realizing why—and doing so has been quite joyous.

When I first read the assignment, I had an attitude much like that of Lulu Blackman. Because I live in a town where I know absolutely no one, work from home, and have very little interaction with anyone other than my husband, I thought I was safely off the hook from our assignment to heal someone in need. But as I studied the references in preparation for Association day, this citation got me thinking back to both parts of the assignment:…

I have opened my heart and thought to accepting requests for healing and to seeing opportunity for healing. I have had requests from family, but none has come directly to me from a source outside my own circle. In an effort to prepare myself for better healing work, I have been re-reading Science and Health through consecutively. I began in December and have been reading very slowly, underlining a lot, and really digging in. It’s wonderful to drink in each sentence in my own time like this, and I can’t imagine that I will not reap the benefit of more spiritual fluency than I’ve experienced heretofore!

February, 2011 News of God’s liberating power

A neighbor’s daughter has been in a mental hospital because they couldn’t balance her medicines and she was refusing to take any. She was reaching out, and I have been praying for her. I haven’t been able to see her because of her other illnesses, though I am in touch with her family. But nothing can stop prayer! God has been doing wondrous things, even though mortal mind, like Pharaoh, just doesn’t want to let people go.

At Association several years ago you said that the next important step of progress for mankind was to learn to work together. Since hearing that statement, everything in my personal life and in the world at large has convinced me of the truth of those words.

For six years I have been a member of a black gospel choir. Last Christmas we put on a truly inspiring musical program that was pervaded by the Holy Spirit. Despite this success…

I have some dear friends (not Christian Scientists) who recently got married. One night when I was at home, the wife rang, saying she needed to come and stay with me. I didn’t ask too many questions, but welcomed her with open arms. Amidst the tears, she explained that they felt they had made a terrible mistake. She wasn’t sure how long she would need a home, but didn’t know where else to go.

Supporting a neighbor

For ten weeks my neighbor seems to have been challenged by something the medical field hasn’t been able to diagnose. Last week she was VERY afraid. Although she is not a monotheist, I asked her if she believes that deity created her, because I believe that God created me and that He couldn’t mess up—He got it right. Therefore I believe that He is my Parent. Just as I would climb into my parent’s lap when I was a kid, I sometimes like to feel as though I’m climbing into God’s lap and turning everything over to Him. In a parent’s lap you can let go of all your concerns and know that you are being taken care of, that everything is under control.