Live your gratitude

November 20, 2012 | 3 comments

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John F. Kennedy To keep the commandments of our Master and follow his example, is our proper debt to him

Sin’s necessity

November 19, 2012 | 8 comments

Here’s a view of sin I’d never considered in depth before: “This is sin’s necessity,– to destroy itself.”  Mary Baker Eddy (S&H 405:19) Sin is often viewed in terms of the harm it brings the sinner. A caught thief is sent

Life shouldn’t hurt

November 16, 2012 | 7 comments

I learned a significant rule for living without pain during a recent tennis lesson. My racket-hand wrist was hurting when I hit the ball. As my game has improved, I’ve played much better players, and the ball gets hit more

Act on those ideas!

November 15, 2012 | 4 comments

Ideas won’t keep: something must be done about them. ~Alfred North Whitehead Do you have lots of great ideas, but they remain only ideas that never take an outward form? They get stashed away in backroom mental storehouses that rarely get

The bane of selfishness

November 14, 2012 | 8 comments

Are there times when your prayers are not answered and you wonder why? Perhaps there is an element of selfishness that needs to be eliminated. Ponder the depths of this message from Mary Baker Eddy: “Selfishness does not appear in the