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Overcoming impasses

Willingness to look past personal viewpoints and see the unity inherent in God’s children enables us to experience progress where it’s unexpected. 

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We accomplish so much in cooperation with others – whether on a personal scale or on a global stage. But sometimes in trying to work together, it’s difficult to find a smooth path forward. Despite how things appear, however, God didn’t create us with irreconcilable differences. In truth, God’s children are at one with each other and harmonious, expressing the one divine Mind.

We’ve selected an assortment of pieces from the archives of The Christian Science Publishing Society that illustrate how embracing the truth of our innate goodness as children of God clears the way for us to advance toward noble goals.

There really are no bubbles into which we are divided in God’s universe. The author of “Pop the bubbles of division” shares how embracing the limitless thoughts that come to us from God enables us to overcome any standstill.

Knowing that each of us is governed by divine Love, with no roadblocks, we can find progress in our work together, as the writer of “The timeless basis for cooperation” experienced in the workplace.

We grow in our confidence that productive cooperation is the norm as we learn about a spiritual sense of unity, the author of “Unity, not division, is what’s natural” shares.

In “A spiritual response to political division and upheaval,” the Editor of the Monitor explores how holding to an understanding that there is only one God, and therefore one spiritual creation, helps us overcome the suggestion that we are opposed to each other.

The foundation for completing what we set out to do, the writer of “How to work together” shows, is discovering that the divine Love that is our source is absolutely unlimited.

And “How do we get things done together?” considers how the humility to follow God’s will propels us forward toward good results.

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Dear Reader,

About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:

“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”

If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.

But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.

The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.

We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”

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