ON MEMORIAL DAY

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for the sacrifice of your neighbor

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The Platform of Christian Science

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The CRASH!!

by Becca Levy of FCCS, Fairbanks, AK
When Van was riding his bike, he decided to try a new move and it resulted in a big wreck. As he flew off of his bike he was thinking, "This is really going to hurt!" But then when he found himself laying in the grass still in one piece he realized that being afraid is the worst part of anything.

What happens after death?

After the change called death takes place, 

do we meet those gone before? – or 

does life continue in thought only as in a dream?

Miscellaneous Writings  42:4-28 

     Man is not annihilated, nor does he lose his identity, by passing through the belief called death. After the momentary belief of dying passes from mortal mind, this mind is still in a conscious state of existence; and the individual has but passed through a moment of extreme mortal fear, to awaken with thoughts, and being, as material as before. Science and Health clearly states that spiritualization of thought is not attained by the death of the body, but by a conscious union with God. When we shall have passed the ordeal called death, or destroyed this last enemy, and shall have come upon the same plane of conscious existence with those gone before, then we shall be able to communicate with and to recognize them.

     If, before the change whereby we meet the dear departed, our life-work proves to have been well done, we shall not have to repeat it; but our joys and means of advancing will be proportionately increased.

     The difference between a belief of material existence and the spiritual fact of Life is, that the former is a dream and unreal, while the latter is real and eternal. Only as we understand God, and learn that good, not evil, lives and is immortal, that immortality exists only in spiritual perfection, shall we drop our false sense of Life in sin or sense material, and recognize a better state of existence.

ADDITIONAL IDEAS:

Illusion of death

S&H 251:8-11

In the illusion of death, mortals wake to the knowledge of two facts: 

(1) that they are not dead; 

(2) that they have but passed the portals of a new belief.

"As man falleth asleep "

S&H 291:19

"In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be." So we read in Ecclesiastes. This text has been transformed into the popular proverb, "As the tree falls, so it must lie." As man falleth asleep, so shall he awake. As death findeth mortal man, so shall he be after death, until probation and growth shall effect the needed change. Mind never becomes dust. No resurrection from the grave awaits Mind or Life, for the grave has no power over either.

Primitive error

S&H 292:7-10

Truth will be to us "the resurrection and the life" only as it destroys all error and the belief that Mind, the only immortality of man, can be fettered by the body, and Life be controlled by death.

Ever-Present Good

Bring ye all the tithes

into the storehouse,

that there may be

meat in mine house, and

prove me now herewith,

saith the Lord of hosts,

if I will not open you

the windows of heaven,

and pour you out a blessing,

that there shall not be

room enough to receive it.

                                                   ~Mal 3:10

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A grateful heart a garden is,

Where there is always room

For every lovely, Godlike grace

To come to perfect bloom.

                                                   ~Hymn 3:1

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Are we really grateful

for the good already received?

Then we shall avail ourselves

of the blessings we have, and

thus be fitted to receive more.

                                              ~S&H 3:22-24

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Let us now set about being fitted for more...

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