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When you feel pulled down by any kind of gloom about yourself or anyone, open your thought to the breakfast.

God made each of His children capable of rising to the tasks before them.

With her children on the road during a snow storm, a mother finds her peace in prayer.

“It doesn’t matter what the material senses say. ” That thought occurred to me in the middle of the night as, once again, I was awake wrestling with the physical dilemmas facing me, some going back a number of years.

I felt a strong connection and brotherhood with the worldwide congregation of Christians Scientists. 

I grew up in the city of Rio de Janeiro and was raised very spoiled. I had hardly ever done laundry or performed household chores, since my mom always did all these things and sought to satisfy all my wishes.

Through the ages, mankind has always tried to get closer to God, to that which is higher and more spiritual. Those who have been looking for ways to transcend the material have left signs around the globe.

When I was a child, I used to sing a popular Danish song that translates into English as: “Christmas is coming now, and Christmas continues till Easter.

Do you know the story of Heidi? Every year at Christmas when I was a child, our family doctor’s wife would offer me a book of the series telling the (fictitious) adventures of Heidi, the little Swiss girl who went to live with her grandfather in the mountains because she was an orphan. I would read those books over and over again, fascinated by the qualities of that child and touched by her story.

Those three simple but powerful words can do wonders. For the fearful, insecure, unloved, and lonely, those words are deeply meaningful.