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The first time I came face to face with resistance to equal opportunities for women was in 1966. I was managing a fast-food franchise and found it difficult to attract qualified men to work in the restaurant during the daytime hours.

Editor’s note: Like a pair of old friends playing catch in the backyard, Nash and Pete shared spiritual ideas with each other as the 2019 Major League Baseball World Series games progressed. At some point, they both agreed that their conversation could bless others and not just apply to avid baseball fans.

I’ve always appreciated opportunities to share Christian Science with the public. And while serving in my local Christian Science Reading Room—a combination bookstore/library where you can pray, read and study Christian Science publications, or borrow or purchase them—I like to be open to what I can pray about in order to support my community.

Relying on God can help us with interpersonal relationships that cause difficulties in the workplace. On one occasion, I was assigned to work with an individual who had a reputation for being belligerent, provocative, and difficult to be around.

The week my mom passed on, the subject of the Bible Lesson in the Christian Science Quarterly was “Probation After Death. ” You know, it felt a bit unsettling, the thought that my sweet mom could now be “on probation.

Many people are familiar with Christ Jesus’ parable of the prodigal son, found in chapter 15 of Luke’s Gospel (see verses 11–32 ). It’s the story of a young man who asks for his inheritance and receives it, leaves his father and older brother behind, and goes off to live a new, “riotous” life elsewhere.

When I was about eight years old, I was lying on my mom’s bed watching her iron. I asked myself, “Why should I be good?” Quickly the thought came, “Because it is right to be good!” I immediately accepted that idea.

Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered Christian Science, reasons: “If God, or good, is real, then evil, the unlikeness of God, is unreal” ( Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 470 ).

Sometimes ads for services by handymen or other craftspeople contain the slogan “No job too small!” As someone who’s not a do-it-yourself kind of guy around the house, I always appreciate seeing those words. They reassure me that I don’t have to feel embarrassed about asking for help.

Reading the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy for the first time, this statement caught my attention: “The inaudible voice of Truth is, to the human mind, ‘as when a lion roareth’ ” ( p. 559 ).