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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

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

No mountain too big

November 13, 2012 | 5 comments

It’s not the mountain we conquer,   but ourselves.   ~Edmund Hillary (First to climb Mt. Everest) Are there any mountain-sized problems in your life? Fear not. They are not bigger than God. They are not bigger than the solutions that solve them.

Life-time warranty

November 9, 2012 | 6 comments

For anyone struggling with false beliefs of old age, it’s empowering to remember that you were created with a Life-Time Warranty! Yep, that’s right. God’s child is not a failing mortal, prone to age-beliefs, susceptible to loss of faculties, diminishing