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It’s hard to describe how grateful I am for Mary Baker Eddy and the Church she founded. Her teachings have defined my life since I came to Christian Science in high school, from a mainstream Protestant background.

You might say my family’s “contact” with the Founder of Christian Science and her teachings occurred at the end of her career. At that time, after several tragic years, my grandfather was healed of alcoholism by a Spanish countess, an American by birth, who had become a Christian Science practitioner.

In the 1920s my grandmother was given a book that was to change her life. She had lost her husband in the Great War, and she had two children to bring up on her own with very little money.

A letter to the Los Angeles Times   some years ago in response to a thought-provoking article about church caught my attention. The writer of the letter, who identified herself as a member of a Protestant denomination, lamented that her denomination had gone through what she called a “dumbing-down process.

How are we seeing our fellow man? And why is it important to gain a more spiritual view of our neighbors and those in the news?

The advice columns that appear in many newspapers provide an interesting window into relationship challenges. Some writers may be seeking an independent assessment of who was right and who was wrong in a particular situation.

From the time I was a young teenager, I played music professionally. For several years I made a living singing, as well as playing the saxophone.

This contributor wrote the following during a lunch break on a Christian Science association day, when she was feeling so “fired up and inspired” that “the words just came pouring out. ”   Get out there and heal.

As I have grown in my understanding of spiritual healing, I am learning there is no condemnation, no incurability. There is always a way to progress and move forward.

The word provenance is defined as the history of a valued object or work of art. I recently read the book Provenance, by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo, which tells the true story of two men who created and sold hundreds of fake paintings.