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After her husband’s passing, the author gets a spiritual insight that lifts the grief.

Quieting thoughts about “self” and seeking God’s directing.

For the past 15 years I have lived on a small farm on the outskirts of Belo Horizonte, and during this time, I have become much more observant of nature. Spring is on the way, and what do we see? The trees dropping their leaves (which are green year-round where I live) as they do when shaken by the wind at the end of winter.

In Germany nowadays almost a quarter of the population are seniors, which is something many countries worldwide are experiencing to a similar degree. There is often talk of the aging of society, and it’s seen as a growing social problem.

One day, as I went to see a friend, I found him with a group of other friends under the shade of a tree. They were discussing with great passion a radio program that they had just heard, and that was about “planning our life.

To listen to Eckhart Tolle is to be reminded that anything is possible—for anyone. I’m not talking about living a life of leisure, filled with expensive cars, beach homes, and extravagant vacations, but an experience brimming with the kind of spiritual insights that not only make this life worth living but decidedly more fulfilling.

During my first week as librarian in the Christian Science Reading Room in Melbourne, Australia, everything electrical went wrong. I had to replace the cassette/CD player, the answering machine, and an exhaust fan.

On October 3, 2010, I found myself in a jail in Los Angeles, California, asking myself how I got there. Everything was so confusing.

As a child I had a deep love for Christian Science. My mother was a wonderful example of a loving and dedicated Christian Scientist, and we were very close.

One time, when I had spent many hours polishing a tile floor of considerable area, going over it several times, I awakened in the night with a very painful back. Immediately, I saw that under God’s government there was no law that could produce discomfort as a result of a good motive and right action.