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Seen from space, the earth is beautiful, like a bright blue marble with white swirls encircling it amidst colors of brown, yellow, and green. It is amazing to think that we, as children of God, have been given loving dominion over it!  In Genesis, we read that God gave man “dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” ( 1:26 ).

Are you an Ananias or a Barnabas? In the Bible book The Acts of the Apostles, chapter 9, Saul is on his way to Damascus to arrest and take back to Jerusalem anyone professing what we now call Christianity. Saul was a dreaded figure to the followers of Jesus.

Are we attempting , with God’s help or without, to build a grand and noble life? Or are we allowing the excellence of the life God has already given us to appear? Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures states, “We must form perfect models in thought and look at them continually, or we shall never carve them out in grand and noble lives” (Mary Baker Eddy, p. 248 ).

Like most small airplanes, ours has something called a transponder. This instrument allows an airplane to be recognized by an airport control tower.

The rapidly advancing capacities of artificial intelligence have grabbed the attention of citizens around the world. Those who see the potential of AI to make life easier and better are elated by some of these advances, but there are also many fears surrounding AI’s possible misuse and its apparent capacities to act autonomously, especially as these might evolve over time.

Both ancient and modern history have shown what ultimately happens to widely believed yet mistaken concepts. Absolute facts slowly erode them until they finally crumble.

There is a perennial yearning in human nature to be and do better. We might notice that we have felt this impulsion more acutely when our efforts to reach a cherished goal appear to be failing.

The compass needle always points north. The attractive force never denies the needle, nor can the needle deny the attraction.

Recently, a friend told me about how she had started offering to pray for people in her community when they mentioned they were having a problem with something. It could be anything: a back problem, travel issues, whatever.

I was on a family holiday when my granddaughter noticed that my eye was red. I thought that water had leaked into my mask while we were snorkeling.