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Recently, I was watching a television documentary called,  The Real Face of Jesus?  in which computer artists generated the possible face and body of Jesus. They used advanced 3D computer technology and forensic data based upon impressions made on the Shroud of Turin to master this.

A little over two years ago, I was elected First Reader of my Christian Science branch church. You can imagine the joy I felt that night after accepting this new position.

When I answered the phone, I heard my two grown daughters crying in terror. They were in the mountains of Colorado watching a gigantic mudslide.

To outward appearances, Mary Baker Eddy was just another mortal walking around in her corner of the world. And in a way, she lived a normal life for someone who was propelled into the world’s limelight.

Why did Mary Baker Eddy, who founded the Christian Science Church, establish a secular international newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor? Why would a religious leader also have a purpose for news and information? As a staff editor for the Monitor, it’s a question I have thought about a lot.

As I sit on the couch, our family’s pet cat, Lily, is curled up next to me. Sometimes she lifts her head to look at me with begging eyes.

I have known the 23rd Psalm since I was a child. A friend was given a Bible for perfect attendance in her Sunday School, and she shared that Bible with me.

When I called a friend for some information, I was aware—even on the phone—that she was having difficulty getting up and going to get what I’d asked for. As she slowly moved to the other room, she used a very familiar expression among Christian Scientists.

There’s a slogan that reads, “What’s not to love?” Well, sometimes I seem to know all too clearly just what is unlovable about my identity; it doesn’t seem possible that God could love me as He looks at me. Perhaps some mistakes bear down on me.

One of Jesus’ most compelling statements is a powerful message to us today: “He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father” ( John 14:12 ). Greater works? Jesus raised the dead! He must have known because of his origin—the virgin birth—that he had what might be humanly considered a “head start.