The Truth about YOU!!

Posted on December 2, 2025 by Rachel

YOU ARE loved, loving, lovable, and lovely. This is the truth about you and by your own actions, you are proving this Truth every day!
The love you express knows no boundaries. You express patience, unselfishness, generosity, grace, creativity, and many other wonderful qualities. Remember, Love is the only power! No person, place, or thing can take good away from you or anyone else because evil has no power. Love doesn’t come from person, place or thing. God IS Love, and all the love that we see in others is a reflection of His/Her Love. Remember also that God is the source of all wisdom, energy, creativity, ability.
🙂 Loving you,
Rachel Anna

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Update from Oakland

Posted on December 3, 2005 by Rachel

Well I am still living in Oakland in my lovely apartment. I have a new (old) bicycle that I just love, a canary yellow Lady’s Schwinn from the 70’s. On Wednesday, I took it in and the bike had a tune up, with new cables and housing, new brakes, new chain and a new back derailer. It looks great and I can’t stop looking at it!

As far as work, I am still looking and listening for the next adventure, life’s next turn. It is important to me that whatever I end up doing should bless the community. I am not “looking” too hard though because I am so enjoying the time off and the thought of being a “starving artist” and creating art all the time intrigues me.

As you can see from when this was posted, I still have a challenge of letting go of the day and climbing into bed. Late dinners and late nights are the norm that I am trying to break free from.

About two/three? weeks ago, I started the process of forming a group for “young Christian Scientists” in the Bay Area. Our first meeting will be in a few days. I hope we have a good turnout.

That is about it for now since it is bedtime.

Write me! I would love to hear from you!

Sincerely,

Rachel McVey
rachelannamcvey@gmail.com

Take care and be BLESSED!!

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Posted on December 2, 2005 by Rachel

Hey Friends,

The TMC Youth is a great place to start in thinking about the future of our movement and how young people can contribute towards its prosperity and be blessed by it at the same time.

The link:

http://events.bandmps.com/tmcyouth.html

(Copy and paste into URL)

Some happening things are going on and lets be a part of it. Some things I would love to see develop in our community as Christian Scientists:

–Form a close knit but welcoming community

–Community service program

–Sit in a circle for services (at least occasionally)

–Youth lectures

–Offer Sentinel Radio on podcast

–Offer the Bible Lesson as a podcast

–Reverse Sunday Bible Lesson schedule so that the lesson read is then studied the week after.

–Have Connie Coddington’s show (and others if there are any) aired as a podcast

Feel free to post COMMENTS and SUGGESTIONS–what you have to say is valid, valued, and appreciated!

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What is Christian Science?

Posted on December 2, 2005 by Rachel

Christian Science is the willingness to be God’s servent. It is understanding that good is actually the only reality –that God, good, is the only power and evil has no power since God is All in all. This is articulated by Mary Baker Eddy in Science and Health where she says

“Moral and spiritual might belong to Spirit, who holds the “wind in His fists;” and this teaching accords with Science and harmony. In Science, you can have no power opposed to God, and the physical senses must give up their false testimony. Your influence for good depends upon the weight you throw into the right scale. The good you do and embody gives you the only power obtainable. Evil is not power. It is a mockery of strength, which erelong betrays its weakness and falls, never to rise.”

My favorite part reads “The good you do and embody gives you the only power obtainable. Evil is not power. It is a mockery of strength, which erelong betrays its weakness and falls, never to rise.”

I am reading a book right now called “What’s So Amazing About Grace” by Phillip Yancy and I love it. He is not a Christian Scientist, but he has a great deal to say about grace, Christianity, and what it means to be a Christian. At first, I was turned off, but with some encouragement from a friend, I read on and have been delighted and thoroughly satisfied with what the book had to say.

Grace, gratitude, and goodness are wonderful to behold, both in my own attitude and from others, all a blessing.

Those are my thoughts for now.

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New Group Forming

Posted on November 15, 2005 by Rachel

Dearest Friends,

There is a new group forming for twenty and thirty something Christian Scientists in the San Francisco Bay Area. The idea is to meet in a central location for food, fellowship, and activities. The mission of this group would be for attendees to share experiences and thoughts that bear witness to Truth and Love.

Activities include but are not limited to:

watch and discuss movies
discussions based on the weekly Bible Lesson
Bible study
volunteer opportunities
fun outings

Food possibilities:

Pizza
Potluck
Subway

Possible locations to meet could be

Christian Science Reading room
Restaurant
Coffee house

All suggestions are welcomed and appreciated. Please leave a comment below or write to rachelannamcvey@gmail.com.

Goal: To edify the communities in which we live, play and work through discussion, sharing experiences, and blessing others.
* Edify: to improve the morals or knowledge of someone or a community. syn. enlighten, inform, educate, instruct, improve, teach

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New Apartment

Posted on September 22, 2005 by Rachel

Well, it has been a long time but I have excuses! Ha!

Anyway… I love my new place–it is close to everything including walking distance to church, the art center, Lake Merrit (Oakland), a BART station, the carpool pick-up spot (if I were to carpool to work) and downtown in general. I am working hard as always, taking an art class (glass fusing) and generally enjoying life–especially the new-ness of my new place! Life is a lot different than it was in Jamaica though. have to go now cause I’m tired.

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The Latest

Posted on August 15, 2005 by Rachel

Work (now that I have been there a month) is going alright. I file a lot (sometimes all day long) and other times data entry but it is a good job. My boss is very nice and so are the staff. She is an executer of estates and Conservator of person and estates, executor of Trusts, and many other things. We have a lot of clients, so it is a huge amount of work.

Well, it is 1 AM and I really need to go to bed, but hopefully another update will come along when I have more news to share.

Take care and be blessed,
Rachel

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Update from home

Posted on July 24, 2005 by Rachel

To all my friends and readers,

I apologize for the long silence, as always. For the past month, I have been living with my parents, in their two bedroom little house. My bedroom is really my Step-dad’s office, so we are sharing the very tight space together.

Work: I was hired from my first face-to-face interview (last week). Friday gone (July 22) was my first day at work and Monday will be my second. I’ll be sharing my time between two offices in San Francisco, working for a Fiduciary. Not sure of the spelling on that one, but I’ll learn! There is a lot of technical terms to learn for that job.

Now that I have been hired, I hope to also find my own apartment, and I am looking forward to that adventure!

Until I move out, however…

My Mom and Step-dad are remodeling the house that they will be moving into next, so every day and every evening, that is all they talk about. My mom just spent a week at a recorder (a wooden instrament) workshop and performed in two concerts-one last night and one this morning.

Every evening, or almost, Craig, my step-dad, practices his viola. I really wanted my mom to do the workshop because I want to see her spend as much time on her recorder as Craig does on his viola, though I can’t really see that happening. Anyway, I am excited for her, also because I want to be doing my art things and look forward to her supporting and encouraging me when the time comes.

Food shopping, house shopping, dinner, dishes, commuting, the people of San Fran, that is my life these days…

Take care and hope to hear from you!

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Party and Presentation

Posted on June 23, 2005 by Rachel

To all readers and friends of this weblog:

For those that are in the area, there will be a welcome home party and presentation in the San Francisco Bay Area at the Sun Gallery in Hayward, CA on Sunday, June 26 from 3-5 pm.

I will be showing some of the photographs that I have taken over the two years and talking about my experience of two years in the Peace Corps in Jamaica.

If interested, please RSVP to (510)339-9472 or email me at rachelannamcvey@hotmail.com. Thank you and have a blessed day 🙂

Rachel

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Coming Home!!

Posted on June 15, 2005 by Rachel

Dear Friends and family,

I have enjoyed my Peace Corps experience in Jamaica and guess what? It has
been two years already and it is time to come home! The experience has been

a good one that I will treasure forever. I will be coming home on Tuesday,
June 21! That’s less than a week away! For those of you in the SF Bay
Area, there will be a welcome home party on Sunday, June 26. Venue and time

are yet to be determined and if anyone is interested, please reply so that I

can keep you updated. For those at Principia, I am planning on coming to
give my presentation (to any class or group that invites me) in the fall.
Who knows? If I make it to the 10 year reuinion, I could give it there too.

As for plans, I am still listening. I would be honored to work at Principia

or The Mother Church, or another organization that harmonizes with what I
believe in (honesty, efficiency, compassion, also known as wisdom, economy,
and brotherly love, also known as Life, Truth, and Love).

If I stay in the Bay Area, I am hoping to set up my studio and start
committing time to art (making jewelry) and the Practice.

That is about all the news I can think of right now.

Much love and I would love to hear from everyone and anyone!

Rachel

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