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My favorite movie is Groundhog Day, starring Bill Murray. If you haven’t seen it, Murray’s character, Phil Connors, is an arrogant and self-centered TV weatherman.

After her husband's sudden passing, a woman turns to prayer and finds not just comfort but indestructible joy.

Author James Spencer replies to a question about his January 2013 Journal article “Living in the Third Degree”

True self-knowledge is ultimately a spiritual process, found through prayer.

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.