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I was walking home from my office on 42nd Street in New York City one crisp autumn day, keeping step with the rhythm of a Whitney Houston song playing on my iPod. As I strode up Sixth Avenue, I couldn’t help smiling at the sweet concurrence of sounds, images, and thoughts enveloping me.

“What is a bomb?” the little four-year-old asked me earnestly. We were in Sunday School, right in the middle of a Bible story that definitely had no bombs in it.

It was Tuesday night. Two days remained until my big music history exam, and although I had been studying intensely for days, I still felt unprepared and inadequate.

Divine Mind, being infinite, never repeats itself. Hence the promise in the book of Revelation, “Behold, I make all things new” ( 21:5 ).

When an earthquake occurs, whole buildings can be shaken off of their foundations and collapse. So, it also seems we can be shaken when disaster touches our lives and rocks us to the very core.

After living in an apartment connected to my parents’ house during graduate school, it was time to move out on my own. I wanted to live alone near my university, yet, after much searching it became clear that in order to afford renting a home in this area, I needed to find roommates.

When I was a young Christian Scientist, I used to get up at 5:00 a. m.

I once knew a Christian Science practitioner who seemed always near the phone taking calls for the practice. I asked her, “Do you spend all your time thinking about God?” She replied, “Actually, my prayers are most effective when I think as God.

The word God is such a tiny simple word, and yet if we think of all it implies, the immensity of what we behold is so tremendous that we stand in awe at what we see. I certainly stood in awe when I found myself in a life-threatening situation one extremely cold, dark winter’s evening.

Every Sunday morning, I get ready and rush to beat the traffic in Nairobi to attend the weekly service at my branch Church of Christ, Scientist. When I arrive there, we all sit together as we wait for the Readers to share the Christian Science Lesson-Sermon with the congregation.