Or even if you do live near a local branch church . . .

Thanks for the recent post highlighting the availability of the weekly web broadcasts of the Wednesday testimony meetings from The Mother Church in Boston.  Here's a link you can use to access those broadcasts:  http://christianscience.com/church/Wednesday-meeting-broadcast/

Also, even if you do live near a church and attend a local testimony meeting, you may still want to listen in to The Mother Church broadcast on Wednesdays as well as attend the local meeting.  I often do this.  What a gift!

If you don't live near a church...

You might like to listen to the Wednesday services from The Mother Church in Boston, which are broadcast over the Internet at 2 p.m. (ET) This is a 'full' service, complete with hymns and testimonies sent over the Internet. The service is rebroadcast from 4 p.m. Wednesday to 3 p.m. (ET) Thursday.

Our local Wednesday Testimony services are held at 7:30 p.m. Everyone is welcomed.

New Hymn -- new inspiration

Last night we sang a new hymn at our Wednesday evening meeting.  It was from the Hymnal Supplement, Hymn #462.  This hymn contains the thought that there is a prayer that I can always pray -- no matter what the circumstances, "Simply praising Him."  What a wonderful and simple thought to treasure as we go through our daily routines, or as we face troubling times.  The simple choice is ours.  Each moment of our busy day we can choose to   "Praise the Creator.  Let all within me sing!" 

I am looking forward to a bright, happy, praise-filled day!

Watermelon Festival 2011

Please join us on Sunday, the 7th of August, for the Watermelon Festival! We'll be open and in the street in front of our Reading Room at 3431 W.Cary, from 10 to 6 p.m.  Bargains, goodies, and lots of fun will be a-plenty!

New Beginnings

I'm so grateful that each morning is a new beginning with our Father-Mother
God. (Sometimes I need new beginnings in the middle of the day too!)

That I can resolve to hold my thinking, my actions and my words to a higher standard right this minute keeps me alert.

Here's my review of each day:

Did my words about, or to someone, bless or lift them? 

Did my thoughts tend to heal the current news of our government and world conditions?

Are my actions motivated by love for my fellow man?

Does my love for my fellow man motivate me to do more than I am doing?

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science states in her seminal textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,  "If you believe in and practise wrong knowingly, you can at once change your course  and do right."

"What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds." 

"Desire is prayer..."

So my daily prayer is from Psalms 143:8

"Cause me to hear thy loving-kindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee."

A Different Take on Things

There is a passage in the Bible (Phil. 4:7) that states, "And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus."

I was surprised recently when I heard someone reference this line with the interpretation that "passeth" meant "surpasses" or "is beyond" understanding.  This view reduces the "peace of God" to an unknowable mystery with only a hope that the last part of that statement will be true.  From the very first time I read this passage I thought that "passeth" was an old fashioned way of saying "passes."  To me this is a statement of divine activity.  

Understanding flows from (passes/paseth) from God to man.  The children of God, you and me, created in His image after His likeness as stated in Genesis, reflect every element of that source.  I find this to be a comforting statement, bringing with it "the peace of God."

The Prayerful Mechanic was my post and is an example of a need being met by the recognition that understanding isn't an internal chemical or electrical mental process.  Rather, it is an expression of God completely

demonstratable all the time, especially when we need it most.