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Answers to prayer can come about in the most unusual ways.

Some years ago, there was a show on Brazilian TV in which a comedian mimicked a minister from the government who would often say, “What matters is numbers. ” The comedian’s playfulness is a sign that humanity today seems to be worried about and bound to “numbers.

Dashing off in the rain, car full, traffic heavy, I sigh behind the wheel, calming thought I consider how much there is to do … The thought creeps in, “Turn back home?” But Love has a gift for me today—        and who am I to say, “No, thanks”? So as the car begins to accelerate toward jail, my thought begins to accelerate toward joy. “Father-Mother, show me Your man,        starting right here.

Q: The Christian Science churches I’ve been in have the words “God is Love” on the wall. It seems so simple, yet I am having difficulty understanding what love is.

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. This, dear one, is the only place you live—not in flesh but in Spirit, unknown to the carnal mind, not threatened or disturbed.

We all need teachers. Without them we wouldn’t know how to drive, analyze graphs, or kick a soccer ball.

In the late 1800s, French impressionist painter Claude Monet painted his famous “Haystack” series, a collection of 25 paintings on this same subject. Monet was fascinated by how his vision of stacks of hay after harvest season changed minute by minute, season by season,  depending on time of day, weather, lighting, atmosphere, and perspective.

When the first issue of The Christian Science Monitor was given to Mary Baker Eddy on the dark and foggy day of November 25, 1908, she told those present: “This, in truth, is the lightest of all days. This is the day when our daily paper goes forth to lighten mankind” (Robert Peel, Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Authority , p.

Prayer Is not the Christian’s balm for grief,      mid scenes of strife and care, A holy calm, a sweet relief,      found oftenest in prayer? Unsatisfying, fraught with fear,      our hopes too frequent are; But faith still claims a Father’s ear      to listen to our prayer. When pleasure’s siren voice would charm,      ambitious hopes ensnare, We gird the Christian armor on      and conquer, oft by prayer.

The founder of this magazine, Mary Baker Eddy, once described “Christian” and “Science” as the “two largest words in the vocabulary of thought” ( No and Yes , p. 10 ).