Happy New Year fellow CSN pioneers!

Dedicatory Sermon (Jan. 1895)

“A new year is a nursling, a babe of time, a prophecy and promise clad in white raiment, kissed — and encumbered with greetings — redolent with grief and gratitude. An old year is time’s adult, and 1893 was a distinguished character, notable for good and evil. Time past and time present, both, may pain us, but time improved is eloquent in God’s praise.”

Pulpit and Press, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 1:4–11

Could we not echo this individually and collectively for the year 2021 and incoming 2022?

Our tasks and accomplishments together pale in comparison to those of our Leader, but are nonetheless, significant. We should consider 2021 as “time improved” and expect the same for 2022.

The fullness of the idea, Christian Science nurse (CSN), continues to dawn in thought, freeing itself from the confines of a secular idea of nursing, or institutional model.

Christian Science nursing is the expression of “Divinity embracing humanity”- the absolute, touching the relative. (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 561:18)

The idea is complete and unchanging from its original foundation but is maturing in human thought. We might say it is becoming “time’s adult.” It is an “…infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis.” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 258:13–15)

Let us continue to cherish Christian Science nursing in 2022, the “babe of time” of “prophecy and promise” in our work together.