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Attending publishing conferences over the years as the Publisher’s Agent for Mary Baker Eddy’s writings has led to some interesting conversations. As I’m surrounded by publishers, literary agents, and authors—all scrambling for networking contacts and increased marketing and sales opportunities—conversations others initiate with me often end up being brief.

Centuries ago, a band of spies was sent to assess the resources and defenses of a foreign territory. The future of an entire people was at stake, and their leader—the Hebrew patriarch Moses—charged his agents to bring back a detailed report.

To those coping with chronic pain, anxiety, or depression, opioid pills hold out the promise of a longed-for oasis in what can seem like an endless desert. But the relief these drugs offer is a short-lived mirage, and for many people it comes at the high price of dependency.

“ Our thoughts and prayers are with them” is an expression that’s come under a lot of fire recently. It’s accused not only of being a meaningless phrase, but of hiding a mentality that isn’t really willing to do something useful.

From early childhood we are all taught certain basic rules and laws that can keep us safe from harm. They help us to live alongside our neighbors in harmony.

“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” wrote Robert Frost in his poem “Mending Wall. ” And I certainly shared that sentiment the other day as I thought about the walls of separation that seem to sprout up in so many ways—between family members, political and cultural groups, communities, and nations.

Christian Science helps any of us to open our thought to the infinite nature of God’s goodness, and to question things that we might otherwise assume to be true. For example, Christian Science challenges the widely held assumption that we are incomplete beings needing a partner to make us whole.

Christian Science reveals God as “the great I am; the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal; Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love; all substance; intelligence. ” This definition is found in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, the Christian Science textbook, written by Mary Baker Eddy ( p.

Leaving the pool after a Saturday morning swim got me thinking about weight. People of all shapes and sizes had enjoyed a swim that morning.

At times of tragedy, our hearts naturally reach out to embrace individuals who have lost loved ones. In our desire to help, we can earnestly turn to God in prayer, trusting that His love—infinitely larger than human affection—is present and has the power to lift our brothers and sisters out of grief and loss.