Sunday, December 21st, 2025 Roundtable
For With God Nothing Shall be Impossible
This week’s Lesson Sermon Subject: Is The Universe, Including Man, Evolved By Atomic Force?
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Morning Prayer
There is no error of any name or nature in my consciousness, that can resist, hide, or escape the Truth. The light of Truth and Life and Love shines straight through my belief of evil and banishes it, chasing it into its native nothingness.
My desire is to know and obey God’s law, to be filled with all the fullness of Spirit, knowing only the consciousness of God, good.
My health, strength, life, intelligence, action, etc., are subject to the governing and controlling power of the divine Mind, and to nothing else, for there is no other power.
There is no insufficiency of any kind in Truth, in infinite Love.
Good is ever-present, and is the only reality of existence; this renders evil obsolete.
There is nothing present, or has power, apart from God, that has any reality.
from Watches, Prayers, and Arguments, as given by Mary Baker Eddy, page 128
Daily Watch
139 — WATCH lest you believe that you can have an unlimited sense of God’s power, of its extent and possibilities, and at the same time a limited sense of your ability to reflect this divine power. It is not possible to gain a more unlimited realization of God’s power without gaining at the same time an increasing sense of your ability to reflect this power, and to put it into operation.
One interpretation of Jesus’ statement, “With what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again,” might be, that the standard by which you measure divine power, also measures the extent of your ability to demonstrate or reflect that power. A mounting sense of confidence in your own ability to heal through the power of God always accompanies an increasing recognition of the limitless extent and ability of divine power to do all things.
Man’s use and application of divine power cannot be separated from that divine power, since it does not operate at all except through, or as spiritual man. Unless you have an increasing sense of your own ability to reflect divine power, and a growing realization of yourself as the reflection of divine power, you are not gaining and developing a true appreciation of divine power. Spiritual growth constantly turns away from any suggestion that the “channel” is anything of itself, and recognizes the irresistible nature of divine power expressed through, or reflected by man.
Discussion points
I wish as an act of justice that you hold sacredly in your memory that I assume no good or power of myself, that to God alone I ascribe all love, wisdom and power, the All-in-all, the all good; that I am absolutely nothing, a mere instrument in God’s hands to be used as He will. This is the only position for any one of us to be in.
from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the “Blue Book”), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 213
Christian Science Protective Work by Bicknell Young
Who Speaks? by Florence Roberts
Ways That Are Vain, from Miscellany by Mary Baker Eddy
“Rules for overcoming animal magnetism:
1. See what it is trying to do
2. Know that it cannot do it
3. See that it is not done
To accomplish this:
1. Be patient
2. Be meek
3. Be vigilant
4. Be sober
5. Be loving”
from Collectanea, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 14
There are three ways to ultimate success:
The first way is to be kind.
The second way is to be kind.
The third way is to be kind.
Fred Rogers
Question. — What is the scientific statement of being?
Answer. — There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual.
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 468
Work every day to know that the belief of impossibility has no power over you. Know that it cannot possibly affect you in any way, and can never for an instant hinder your demonstration, whether you are working for health, peace, joy, or any mental quality, thing or experience. Know that you are conscious of the possibility and realization of all that is good and true.
Things to handle daily, from Watches, Prayers, and Arguments given by Mary Baker Eddy
Honesty is spiritual power.
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 453
We have it only as we live it.
from Miscellany, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 126
Science removes the penalty only by first removing the sin which incurs the penalty.
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 40
Scripture informs us that “with God all things are possible,” — all good is possible to Spirit; but our prevalent theories practically deny this, and make healing possible only through matter. These theories must be untrue, for the Scripture is true. Christianity is not false, but religions which contradict its Principle are false.
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 232
God Governs the Universe by Martha Wilcox
6. 209
Material substances or mundane formations, astronomical calculations, and all the paraphernalia of speculative theories, based on the hypothesis of material law or life and intelligence resident in matter, will ultimately vanish, swallowed up in the infinite calculus of Spirit.
Calculus: Describes moving or changing things, the study of change, focusing on how things vary, move, and accumulate.
Calculus is used in the fields of aerospace, finance, weather, engineering, and physiology, to name a few.
Scientific Translations, from Addresses by Martha Wilcox
A Christian Scientist’s View by Sue H. Mims
Missing the Boat by Naomi Shihab Nye
It is not so much that the boat passed
and you failed to notice it.
It is more like the boat stopping
directly outside your bedroom window,
the captain blowing the signal-horn,
the band playing a rousing march.
The boat shouted, waving bright flags,
its silver hull blinding in the sunlight.
But you had this idea you were going by train.
You kept checking the time-table,
digging for tracks.
And the boat got tired of you,
so tired it pulled up the anchor
and raised the ramp.
The boat bobbed into the distance,
shrinking like a toy—
at which point you probably realized
you had always loved the sea.
Mrs. Eddy’s Christmas Message
My Household
Beloved: — A word to the wise is sufficient. Mother wishes you all a happy Christmas, a feast of Soul and a famine of sense.
Lovingly thine,
Mary Baker Eddy
from Miscellany, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 263