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Editor’s note: Mark Sappenfield is Editor of The Christian Science Monitor. When Mary Baker Eddy took the first issue of The Christian Science Monitor in her hands and called that morning “the lightest day of all days,” she was making a promise to the members of the Church of Christ, Scientist, and to the world (see Irving C.

Whatever the problem may be, our only responsibility is listening to God to help us forward.

When we’re feeling happy and good things are happening, we may feel that we want time to stand still, and yet it seems to fly by all too quickly. If we’re facing hardships or feeling discouraged or frustrated, time can seem to move at a snail’s pace and feel like a dead weight.

Even the disciples that followed Jesus doubted their faith at times. This author shares how the Bible helped him when he was doubting.

Who had I become? That’s the question I was faced with when my parents came to visit me at boarding school in the fall of my freshman year. I’d become someone my parents had trouble identifying with.

Last September , I was alerted to alarming news in my country. I was at work in the middle of the day, and suddenly reports of a terror alert were coming in to Mumbai, as well as to neighboring towns and cities in the western part of India.

I recently watched a YouTube video of a concert with 10,000 people singing Ludwig van Beethoven’s masterful composition “Ode to Joy,” from his Symphony No. 9.

I was a new student of Christian Science, and I didn’t own a computer. Nor did I have any of the reference books that the local Christian Science Reading Rooms offered for loan or sale.

Very near the beginning of her groundbreaking book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy states, “Whatever materializes worship hinders man’s spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error” ( pp. 4–5 ).

Expressing gratitude is a daily occurrence for me. In fact, many people have received a unique response from me to the standard greeting, “How are you?” “I am grateful!” I reply, before asking how they are.