Welcome to the Christian Science Daily Lift.

We're so glad you're here.

Starting us off this week with her inspiration is Ethel Baker.

She's a Christian science practitioner and teacher from Boston, Massachusetts, and Buffalo, New York.

Our deepest yearnings for peace and goodness, justice, and freedom, for stability, fulfillment, health, and love, tell us something.

We require vastly more than helpful advisors, better

organizations, more trustworthy leaders, and universal health care plans. Every one of us needs

a savior. Salvation in Christian science is spelled out in deeply spiritual terms in Mary Baker-Eddy's book,

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, as Life, Truth, and Love, understood and

demonstrated as supreme overall. Sin, sickness, and death, destroyed. In that definition, life, truth, and love are

synonyms for God. Mrs. Eddie took her lead from the Bible, and particularly Christ Jesus.

Given the remarkable nature of Jesus' life work, it can be tempting to worship him as though

he were God.

But he made it plain that he wasn't.

He was the son of God.

And one way to worship God is to do what Jesus did, to heal through the same spiritual

understanding that we are spiritual and immortal, the sons

and daughters of spirit, another synonym for God. As the spiritual creation of God, we are intrinsically

free from the ills that so often seem to be devil us, and we can begin to

experience this innate freedom and divine safekeeping today. As Jesus showed us, these works

extend well beyond the aspects of our own lives that need healing or redeeming to include heartfelt compassion for others.

We desire their salvation as we do our own, and we diligently work toward that end.

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