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I had just finished reading the story of Moses’ encounters with God in Exodus. The Bible records that “the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend” ( Exodus 33:11 ).

As a young adult , I became fascinated with evil—not with any desire to have it or practice it, but with a strong desire to end it. My effort to find solutions led me on a journey of studying anthropology, sociology, and psychology.

Court trials—real ones or those in movies or on TV—tend to promote the concept that there are many minds, many approaches, many sides, and many laws at odds with one another. There is the defendant, the prosecutor, the judge, the witnesses, and the jury, among others—all with many opinions and often conflicting motives.

Have you ever heard of a “Godwink”? My daughter recently used that phrase to describe an experience where she felt God’s tender care for her. It’s a little reminder, as if God is saying, “I love you, My child.

The apostle Paul’s admonition  “Pray without ceasing” ( I Thessalonians 5:17 ) is one of a list of prayer counsels I’ve come to call my prayer checklist. Unceasing prayer can seem impossible with everything else one has to do.

At first Moses shrank from the divine demand to free the Israelites from bondage. He asked, “Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?” ( Exodus 3:11 ).

A fellow church member said to me, “Our church is just a shadow of what it used to be. ” I reflected on that for a moment.

It was a Sunday morning. I arrived at church early to take my post as usher, ready to greet newcomers as well as our regular attendees.

Mary Baker Eddy describes how she felt after being healed of life-threatening injuries from a fall on the ice: “Being was beautiful, its substance, cause, and currents were God and His idea. I had touched the hem of Christian Science” ( Retrospection and Introspection, p.

It was during my second or third consecutive reading of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, that I noticed the bottle of pills I had depended on to control nightmares had gone unused. I couldn’t remember the last time I had taken a pill, yet the nightmares had ended.