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christian science quarterly myBiBlelesson © 2013 the christian science publishing society Are sin, diseAse, And deAth reAl? Vi s i t myBibleLesson.com oct. 7–13, 2013

Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real?

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Section One: SIN, DISEASE, and death have no foundation.Page 2

Section Two: wAkE uP from the dream of sin. Page 3

Section Three: fIND yOurSElf as God’s child. Page 4

Section four: hEAlING happens now! Page 5

Section five:PEACE, be still.Page 6

Section Six:PuT ON ThE armor of light! Page 7

Section Seven:ArISE and shine! Page 8

. . . have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.

Golden Text Ephesians 5:11 have

. . . the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness. 32 It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect. 1 Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. 2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: 3 Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; 4 Who redeem-eth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; 5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is re-newed like the eagle’s. 6 The Lord executeth right-

eousness and judgment for all that are oppressed. 1 In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. 2 Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me. 3 Be thou my strong habitation, where-unto I may continually resort: thou hast given command-ment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress. 21 Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side. 1 O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory. 2 Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.

Responsive Reading Psalms 18:28 the, 32; 103:1–6; 71:1–3, 21; 108:1, 2

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1 | Jeremiah 29:8 thus, 9, 11

hus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed. 9 For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the Lord. 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

2 | Psalms 57:2, 8

I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me. 8 Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.

3 | Psalms 121:1, 2, 4, 7 (to :)

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. 2 My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. 4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. 7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil:

1 | 414:21–23

21 The Scripture declares, “The Lord He is God [good]; there is none else beside Him.” Even so, harmony is universal, and discord is unreal.

2 | 415:4–5

Sin, disease, and death

Matter is not inflamed

have no foundations in Truth.

3 | 188:11–15

Mortal existence is a dream of pain and pleasure in 12 matter, a dream of sin, sickness, and death; and it is like the dream we have in sleep, in which every one recognizes his condition to be wholly a state of

Disease a dream

15 mind.

4 | 472:24–30 All

24 All reality is in God and His creation, harmonious and eternal. That which He creates is good, and He makes all that is made. Therefore 27 the only reality of sin, sickness, or death is

Unrealities that seem real

the awful fact that unrealities seem real to human, erring belief, until God strips off their disguise. They are not 30 true, because they are not of God.

1tHe bIbLe Section scIeNce and HeALtH with Key to the Scriptures | Mary Baker Eddy

Word Highlights

diviners: people who claim to be able to discover secret knowledge and predict the future through supernatural methods; mediumsneither hearken: do not listen or pay any attentionpsaltery: small, portable harpkeepeth: guards; protectswholly: completely; entirelyerring: mistaken; sinning

I lift up my eyes to the hills— from where will my help come?

My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

—Psalms 121:1, 2 New Revised

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Last night, I dreamed I was taking a math test and

suddenly realized I hadn’t studied at all! I totally panicked!

That’s crazy— you always remember

to study!

You don’t have to believe any crazy dreams—not even

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jeremiah warns against listening to false prophets who say

they speak “in my [God’s] name.” In other words, go directly to God and those who are demonstrably under His instruc-tions for everything. Jeremiah’s spiritual leadership helped his countrymen survive disasters that included the capture of Jeru-salem by the Babylonians in 586 bc and the exile of its citizens to Babylon.

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4 | I corinthians 15:33 (to :), 34 (to ;)

e not deceived: 34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not;

5 | Romans 6:12–14, 16

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. 13 neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

6 | Isaiah 1:16–18

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

7 | Psalms 4:4 (to :)

Stand in awe, and sin not:

5 | 354:26

Sin should become unreal to every one. It is in itself 27 inconsistent, a divided kingdom. Its supposed realism has no divine authority, and I rejoice in the apprehension of this grand verity.

6 | 337:6–10

6 Sen- sualism is not bliss, but bondage. For true happiness, man must harmonize with his Principle, divine Love; the 9 Son must be in accord with the Father, in conformity with christ.

7 | 327:23

Moral courage is requisite to meet the wrong and to 24 proclaim the right. But how shall we re- form the man who has more animal than

Moral courage

moral courage, and who has not the true idea of good? 27 Through human consciousness, convince the mortal of his mistake in seeking material means for gaining happiness. Reason is the most active human faculty. Let 30 that inform the sentiments and awaken the man’s dor- mant sense of moral obligation, and by degrees he will learn the nothingness of the pleasures of human sense 1 and the grandeur and bliss of a spiritual sense, which silences the material or corporeal. Then he not only will 3 be saved, but is saved.


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I actually think he’s pretty cool! Why don’t you give

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. . . Even though your sins are bright red,

they will be as white as snow. Even though they

are deep red, they will be white like wool.

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. . . I need to express moral courage now! This could

seem hard. I want to get along with my friend, but I need to stand up for that

other kid. He actually seems pretty interesting and smart, and no one

deserves to be picked on.


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e shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy.

9 | I John 3:7 (to :), 9

Little children, let no man deceive you: 9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

10 | II corinthians 4:6

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus christ.

11 | Romans 6:22 now

now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

8 | 475:7–9, 28–1 (to 1st .)

The Scriptures inform us that man is made in 9 the image and likeness of God.

Fleshly factors unreal

Man is incapable of sin, sickness, and death. The real man cannot depart from holiness, nor 30 can God, by whom man is evolved, engender

Man unfallen

the capacity or freedom to sin. A mortal sinner is not 1 God’s man.

9 | 316:3–7

3 The real man being linked by Science to his Maker,

Jesus as mediator

mortals need only turn from sin and lose sight of mortal 6 selfhood to find christ, the real man and his relation to God, and to recognize the divine sonship.

10 | 492:7–12

Being is holiness, harmony, immortality. It is already proved that a knowledge of this, even in small degree, 9 will uplift the physical and moral standard of mortals, will increase longevity, will purify

Mind one and all

and elevate character. Thus progress will finally destroy 12 all error, and bring immortality to light.


Word Highlights

holy: godly; pure; righteous; possessing thought and action aligned with Godengender: create; cause; produce; originateselfhood: personalitysonship: relationship of son to Fatherimmortality: life that is deathless, endless, and unlimitedlongevity: length of life

The God who said, “Out of darkness the light shall shine !” is the

same God who made his light shine in our hearts, to bring us the knowledge of God’s

glory shining in the face of christ. —II cor. 4:6

Good News Translation

I saw on Facebook that you’ve been working

on developing a video game. That’s so cool!

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. . . Tony was right . . . I should be nice to him!

He’s obviously really smart and creative. Can’t wait to try

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Those who are children of God do not continue to sin, for God’s very nature is in them; and because God is their Father, they cannot continue to sin.

I John 3:9—Good News Translation


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11 | xi:9–14

9 The physical healing of christian Science results now, as in Jesus’ time, from the operation of divine Principle, before which sin and disease lose their real- 12 ity in human consciousness and disappear as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation.

12 | 229:28–10

It is the transgression of a belief of mortal mind, not of a law of 30 matter nor of divine Mind, which causes the belief of sickness. The remedy is Truth, not matter, — the truth that disease is unreal. 1 If sickness is real, it belongs to immortality; if true, it is a part of Truth. Would you attempt with drugs, 3 or without, to destroy a quality or condition of Truth? But if sickness and sin are illusions, the awakening from this mortal dream, or illusion, will bring us into health, 6 holiness, and immortality. This awakening is the forever coming of christ, the advanced appearing of Truth, which casts out error and heals the sick. This is the sal- 9 vation which comes through God, the divine Principle, Love, as demonstrated by Jesus.

13 | 381:17–28

In infinite Life and Love there is no sickness, sin, nor 18 death, and the Scriptures declare that we live, move, and have our being in the infinite God. Think less of the enactments of mortal mind, and you 21 will sooner grasp man’s God-given dominion. you must understand your way out of human theories relating to health, or you will never believe

God-given dominion

24 that you are quite free from some ailment. The harmony and immortality of man will never be reached without the understanding that Mind is not in matter. 27 Let us banish sickness as an outlaw, and abide by the rule of perpetual harmony, — God’s law.

14 | 371:27–30

27 The necessity for uplifting the race is father to the fact that Mind can do it; for Mind can impart purity instead of impurity, strength instead of weak- 30 ness, and health instead of disease.

15 | 421:15–18 (to 2nd .)

15 Insist vehe- mently on the great fact which covers the whole ground, that God, Spirit, is all, and that there is none beside 18 Him. There is no disease.

12 | Psalms 17:6 (to :), 15 I will

I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: 15 I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

13 | Matthew 4:23, 24

nd Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and heal-

ing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. 24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.

14 | Mark 1:40–42

And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. 41 And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean. 42 And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.


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leper: someone with a nerve disease that can cause severe skin damageenactments: laws; rulings; decreesailment: disease; illness; complaintthe race: humanityvehemently: powerfully; strongly

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16 | 120:15

15 Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of health. The Science of Mind-healing 18 shows it to be impossible for aught but Mind

Health and the senses

to testify truly or to exhibit the real status of man. There- fore the divine Principle of Science, reversing the testi- 21 mony of the physical senses, reveals man as harmoniously existent in Truth, which is the only basis of health; and thus Science denies all disease, heals the sick, overthrows 24 false evidence, and refutes materialistic logic.

17 | 144:20

Truth, and 21 not corporeal will, is the divine power which says to disease, “Peace, be still.”

18 | 412:16–18, 23

To prevent disease or to cure it, the power of Truth, of divine Spirit, must break the dream of the material 18 senses.

Mentally insist that harmony is the fact, and 24 that sickness is a temporal dream. Realize the presence of health and the fact of harmonious being, until the body corresponds with the normal conditions of health 27 and harmony.

19 | 470:21–24

21 God is the creator of man, and, the divine Principle of man remaining perfect, the divine idea or reflection, man, remains perfect. Man is the expression 24 of God’s being.

Indestructible relationship

20 | 481:3–5

3 God’s being is infinity, freedom, harmony, and boundless bliss. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”


15 | Psalms 37:37

ark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

16 | Psalms 43:5 hope

hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

17 | Isaiah 57:19 Peace

Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the Lord; and I will heal him.

18 | Isaiah 58:6, 8 (to :)

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? 8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily:

Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? 8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.Isaiah 58:6, 8—New International Version

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countenance: face; appearancematerial senses: five physical senses— sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smellcorporeal will: human, mortal willtemporal: earthly; mortal; temporary corresponds with: matches; harmonizes

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“Man is the expression of God’s being,” says Science and Health, p. 470. Insert your (or a friend’s or family member’s) name where it says “man” for a fresh way of reading this sentence.

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19 | Romans 13:11 now

now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

20 | Luke 8:40–42, 49–56 (to :)

nd it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him: for they were all

waiting for him. 41 And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus’ feet, and besought him that he would come into his house: 42 For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a-dying. But as he went the people thronged him. 49 While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue’s house, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master. 50 But when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole. 51 And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden. 52 And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth. 53 And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead. 54 And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called, saying, Maid, arise. 55 And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway: and he commanded to give her meat. 56 And her parents were astonished:

21 | Romans 13:12

The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

21 | 42:6

6 Death will be found at length to be a mortal dream,

A belief in death

which comes in darkness and disappears with the light.

22 | 427:30–6

30 Thought will waken from its own material declaration, “I am dead,” to catch this trumpet-word of Truth, “There 1 is no death, no inaction, diseased action, overaction, nor reaction.”

3 Life is real, and death is the illusion. A demonstration of the facts of Soul in Jesus’ way resolves the dark visions of material sense into harmony and 6 immortality.

Vision opening

23 | 289:14

The fact that the christ, or Truth, overcame and still 15 overcomes death proves the “king of terrors” to be but a mortal belief, or error, which Truth destroys with the spiritual evidences of Life; and this

Death but an illusion

18 shows that what appears to the senses to be death is but a mortal illusion, for to the real man and the real universe there is no death-process.

24 | 249:6–8

6 Let us feel the divine energy of Spirit, bringing us into newness of life and recognizing no mortal nor material power as able to destroy.

Renewed selfhood

25 | 218:32–2

When we wake to the truth of being, all disease, 1 pain, weakness, weariness, sorrow, sin, death, will be unknown, and the mortal dream will forever cease.


Word Highlights

synagogue: meeting place for Jewish worship and religious instructionthronged: swarmed; surrounded and pushed againstbewailed her: cried about or mourned for herlaughed him to scorn: laughed and made fun of himmeat: (archaic) food

AStAINED glASS window depicting

Jesus raising Jairus’s daughter. This

window is in the Original Edifice of

The Mother church in Boston, Massa-

chusetts. (For loca-tion of capernaum, where this healing

took place, see map in Section 4.)

Mrs. Eddy wrote Science and Health to wake everybody up, so to speak. Find out more in the book Mary Baker Eddy: Chris-tian Healer, Amplified Edition by Yvonne Caché von Fettweis and Robert Townsend Warneck, pp. 108–1 10.

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27 Because man is the reflection of his Maker, he is not subject to birth, growth, maturity, decay. These mortal dreams are of human origin, not 30 divine.

27 | 266:27

27 Man is the

Beatific presence

idea of Spirit; he reflects the beatific presence, illuming the universe with light. Man is deathless, spiritual. He 30 is above sin or frailty. He does not cross the barriers of time into the vast forever of Life, but he coexists with God and the universe.

28 | 200:9

9 Life is, always has been, and ever will be independent of matter; for Life is God, and man is the idea

A mortal not man

12 of God, not formed materially but spiritually, and not subject to decay and dust. The Psalmist said: “Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of Thy 15 hands. Thou hast put all things under his feet.”

29 | 428:22

The great spiritual fact must be brought out that man is, not shall be, perfect and immortal. We must hold 24 forever the consciousness of existence, and sooner or later, through christ and christian

The present immortality

Science, we must master sin and death. The evidence 27 of man’s immortality will become more apparent, as material beliefs are given up and the immortal facts of being are admitted.

30 | 248:26

We must form perfect 27 models in thought and look at them continually, or we shall never carve them out in grand and

Perfect models

noble lives. Let unselfishness, goodness, mercy, justice, 30 health, holiness, love — the kingdom of heaven — reign within us, and sin, disease, and death will diminish until they finally disappear.

22 | Isaiah 60:1, 2, 19

Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. 2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. 19 The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.

23 | Job 11:17

And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

24 | Revelation 21:3–6

nd I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and

they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. 5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. 6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.


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gross darkness: blackest night; deep darknessbeatific: joyful; glorious; divinefrailty: physical, moral, or mental weaknesscoexists: exists harmoniously together at the same time

. . . I will be your light forever.

My glory will shine on you.

I am the LORD your God.

—Isaiah 60:19 New International

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Your life will be brighter than sun- shine at noon, and life’s darkest hours will shine like the dawn.Job 11:17—Good News Translation I firmly assert that sin,

disease, and death are NOT real. Life is the eternal reality

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Pearl Hint: If you think sin, disease, and death have any foundations in Truth, you’re dreaming!

we have hidden an image of a pearl [ ] somewhere in the pages of mybiblelesson. happy pearl hunting!

Adapted from the Christian Science Sentinel, Jan. 10, 2011. For the whole article, visit

time4thinkers.com/grateful-for-three-important-healings.

By Billyears ago, while an engineering student, I spilled a liquid bromine com-pound down my wrist and on the inside of my arm, when I accidentally un-screwed the wrong valve on a piece of equipment. This liquid is extremely corrosive, although I don’t remember any pain. Before I knew it, two of the instructors grabbed me and rushed me into a safety shower, dous-ing me with water. They then told me that we were going to the hospital. As we reached the outside of the building, the light and warmth of the magnificent spring day engulfed me, and I immediately thought of the all-encompassing presence of divine Love. It was a powerful reminder of the allness of God and my real spiritual identity as God’s beloved child. A sense of peace came over me, and although we were physically running for the car in the garage, I then and there mentally stopped racing with my thoughts. I rejoiced in the spiritual truth of my being. At the hospital, the doctor dressed the wounds and pronounced them second-degree burns. When he finished his work, I returned to my dormi-tory room still filled with calm and joy. I had a sense of peace, of confidence in God’s ever-presence. In the morning I removed the dressings, and there was no trace of a burn. When I returned to class the next afternoon, the instructor began with a short talk about the need for extreme care and caution in this experiment. He mentioned my incident of the previous day. I was wearing a T-shirt at the time with both arms exposed, and when he came over to see what my friends were talking about, he was surprised to see a completely normal young man with no trace of a burn. This healing proved to me that “time” is not a necessary ingredient for christianly scientific demonstration. Waking to the fact of God’s all-ness, which necessarily results in healing, is a far more useful concept than waiting.

By Linnea

Excerpted from The Christian Science Journal, Feb. 2012. For this and other articles, visit time4thinkers.com/wake-up.

The other night I had a terrible dream. It was one of those dreams that seem so real it’s hard to distinguish it from reality. In this dream, something had happened to my hand so that I would never again be able to use it. I remember feeling so desperately sad; I would have done anything to be able to use my hand again. Then, all of the sudden the thought came: “This is too horrible—it just can’t be real. Why don’t you wake up?”

next thing I knew, I was awake in my bed with my hand just as perfect as it had been before I fell asleep. A flood of relief washed over me, and I was immediately grateful for several things: to have the option to wake up and leave that sadness behind, to hear the voice of the christ break in on my dream, and to understand that reality was unchanged despite the chill-ing nature of the dream.

Ever since, I have been thinking of this experience as an illustration of the practice of christian Science. How freeing it would be if each time an upsetting thought arose in my consciousness, I would hear that intuitive call to abandon the dream and know that I was able to wake up. That night I didn’t have to figure out the waking up process; it happened sponta- neously, after I entertained the thought that it’s what I wanted to do. There was no backsliding into the dream once I was awake. I knew how to recog-nize reality versus dreamland.

Aren’t all distressing situations—whether they come when we’re asleep or awake—simply dreams, just like mine was? They are dreams that are offshoots of the bigger dream of life in matter. I love that christian Sci-ence gives us the option to wake up from the nightmare of material life, both in the so-called waking and sleeping dream, and helps us recognize spiritual reality.

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