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A QUESTION THAT CAME TO MIND at a Wednesday evening testimony meeting revolutionized my understanding of the role of church in the community. As I listened to the readings from the Bible and Science and Health, I was impressed with the idea that God moved the hearts of the people in the Bible to discover their relationship with Him.

NO BRIGHT LIGHT FLASHED OVER 23 PARADISE ROAD. It was just an ordinary Sunday for most people in town.

STANDING and waiting plays a role in the life of a lecturer. Security lines, boarding and deplaning, passenger pickup areas, hotel check-ins, and, of course, greeting and welcoming those who are attending the lecture are all opportunities to express patient understanding, deep joy, love, and gratitude.

NEAR THE END OF A FIVE-MONTH stay in the Upper East region of Ghana as a volunteer with Engineers Without Borders Canada (EWB), I wrote in my blog: "Do you ever have one of those days that leaves you glowing and feeling like you are 100 percent in your right spot? Welcome to my day. This morning I woke up to the sound of Evelyn knocking on my door, peering in from the verandah through my window to see me lying flat on my back on the ground still in my mosquito net, enjoying the 'cool' morning temperature.

Where Do You Sit in church? Does it matter? Why do so many Christian Scientists sit in the back of our auditoriums for church services? Why do many of those same individuals sit right down front for a Christian Science lecture? Is animal magnetism, the term Mary Baker Eddy used to describe error or the carnal mind, handling us and we simply don't recognize it? I had an experience a number of years ago regarding this that has meant a lot to me. I was sitting in church one Wednesday evening with my wife when all of a sudden this angel thought came to me, quite loudly I must say: "Go sit down front!" It was quite startling really.

MANY YEARS AGO, after a dentist told me I had an infected tooth, I prayed for a few hours and began wondering why the healing was taking so long. Then I came across this statement from Science and Health: "Become conscious for a single moment that Life and intelligence are purely spiritual,—neither in nor of matter,—and the body will then utter no complaints" ( p.

AN INSPIRED WRITER SAID, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he" (see Prov. 23:7 ).

JESUS PRESENTED TO THE WORLD an entirely new perspective on life. It represented more than a religion, or a way of living; he presented a new paradigm that redefined the world in which we live.

WHEN THE NASA ROVERS Spirit and Opportunity returned their first photos from the surface of Mars in January 2004, I rejoiced in gratitude. Eighteen months before, as an engineering manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, I led daily meetings to oversee efforts to complete and test the high-tech cameras each rover carries.

HUMANITY IN GENERAL BELIEVES THAT GOOD —whether defined as happiness, fulfillment, rewarding activity, progress, or simply things, resources, and opportunities—is limited. The assumption is that good is finite, and therefore needs to be divided up, which means it is available to some, but not to others.