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A tour of England this past year in celebration of the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible has been an eye-opener for me. It has me wanting to shout from the rooftops: How blessed we are to have ready access to the whole Bible in our own language! I’m also so grateful that Mary Baker Eddy had access to the Bible, which she refers to as “my only authority” ( Science and Health , p.

I was raised in the Catholic faith and received a variety of explanations of God from priests, nuns, and lay people, but the common consensus was that God was unknowable. From what I could gather, He was a powerful, creative deity, and if you caught Him on a good day, He’d perform a miracle.

After I graduated from college and was living in the Chicago area, it occurred to me that maybe I should move to Los Angeles and work in the film industry. It took me a few months to be obedient to what more and more started to feel like a divine idea.

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The time of harvest, reaping the rewards of mercy, kindness, the reign and rain of righteousness, is at hand. Let it embrace you, penetrate you, permeate your every thought, need, and circumstance.

The dance was only a few days away, and things weren’t looking good. I was putting on the eighth grade dance for the middle school where I work, and with so many details still not coming together, I was feeling burdened.

God knows our need, and He has shown me this on many occasions.   One evening, I searched everywhere in my home for something I needed in my work.

Recently I received a summons for jury duty. On previous occasions I had fulfilled my civic obligation by calling in and then being relieved of any further responsibility.

To human perception, there are giants—it might be a giant of illness, age, depression, lack, concern about the future, spiritual despair, inharmony in church. We each face giants, but how one thinks about them helps put their looming size into perspective.

“R-E-S-P-E-C-T! Find out what it means to me!” Those words are from a rousing song that was a titan on the pop charts in the 1960s. Aretha Franklin belted it out in a soul-deep delivery that many think remains unmatched.