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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.

During the late 1970s I was struggling through a difficult time. My family situation required that I go back to work after almost twenty years as a homemaker and mother.

In Christian Science we learn that there is only one Mind, God, and that we are the expression of that Mind—not governed by a mortal mentality. I knew the first part (only one Mind), but when I started a new work engagement helping a customer team I hadn’t worked with before, I was reminded of the second part—of what the truth of God’s nature means for us.

When I was a young girl, I was diagnosed with rheumatic fever. Although I survived the illness, there were debilitating aftereffects that included long periods of pain and immobility in which I couldn’t walk.

As we navigate the waters of daily life, we sometimes find ourselves in front of an obstacle that seems insurmountable. We may feel we don’t have enough in our spiritual “gas tank” of inspiration.

This is a lesson about an ear, a toe, and the unopposable power of Love.   Divine Love is the impetus that renders divine Truth effective—universally, impartially, instantaneously.

There is a theory that individuals are governed largely by their subconsciousness. This subconsciousness is supposedly an aspect of our minds that we are not totally aware of and whose function includes protecting us from harm and sustaining our life physically.