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I yearned for answers. I had been earnestly praying for weeks and months—much of the time with the loving, tender, and inspired help of a Christian Science practitioner.

A few years ago I was staying with friends in the hills above Pietermaritzburg in South Africa. A number of wildfires were alight in the area because of very dry weather conditions.

I have taught Christian Science Sunday School for many years and continue to learn from being there. Presently I teach first- and second-graders, and whenever a healing appears in the weekly Bible Lesson, I ask them, “What did Christ Jesus say to the person healed?”  Understanding man as God’s very image and likeness, Jesus was able to dismiss disease as an illusion.

I’m so grateful for a recent healing I had. I was visiting the city on a very hot day, and I had to walk about a mile to my destination.

One of the US Coast Guard’s most daring rescues took place in 1952 during a massive nor’easter off Massachusetts’s Cape Cod, as dramatized in the recent Disney film The Finest Hours, based on the book of the same name. Fifty-foot waves from the powerful winter storm broke an oil tanker in half.

On a recent Sunday afternoon, my husband and I were at our town’s small boat ramp. We had just launched our fishing boat and were ready to enjoy the lake in the closing days of summer.

During the course of an intense conversation in which it was clear that his life was being threatened, Christ Jesus made one of the boldest assertions of the ages: Evil is unreal. He said that no truth, not an ounce of truth, can be found in any manifestation of evil, and that the devil, a biblical term for evil, is “a liar, and the father of it” ( John 8:44 ).

I grew up not far from Hampton Court Palace, to the west of London. Its large and beautiful gardens include a famous maze made of hedges, where the challenge is to find your way to the center and out again as fast as possible.

Lots of people , having heard of Jesus’ healing works, started following him. But as soon as they learned that meant “take up the cross,” they were gone! (See Mark 10:17–22 , for example.

Advances in publishing and communications have had the effect of shrinking the globe, bringing the news of the day to us more quickly and graphically than ever before. Today worldwide coverage of an event can be almost instantaneous.