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I HAD BEEN COMMISSIONED to fill—within one month—three museum gallery spaces with pen-and-ink drawings as backdrops for Japanese ikebana flower arrangements. I had little time to waste! The drawings had to be simple and well-composed interpretations of nature—specifically, mountain streams, rocks, and vegetation.

EVERYWHERE WE LOOK we hear about models: car models, business models, glamour models, role models, They're prototypes, representatives, concepts, and, in some cases, our heroes. Take the men and women whom magazines often feature.

I'll never forget the words said to me one day seven years ago: "They are clearly your children. " The day before, my husband and I had finalized the adoption of our six-year-old twin daughters from Russia.

BE IT KNOWN THAT I, Mary Baker G. Eddy of Concord, New Hampshire, in consideration of one dollar to me paid by Edward P.

The 1898 Deed of Trust for The Christian Science Publishing Society is more than an interesting historical document. It is an integral part of Mary Baker Eddy's inspired design for her Church.

I still remember the stern look on my wife's grandfather as we talked. He was quite skeptical about my choice of career.

It's been said that almost every grade school girl at some period dreams of owning a horse, and almost every teenage boy involved in athletics dreams of competing in the Olympics and/or playing in the majors—baseball, soccer, etc. But only a small percent of girls and boys realize their dreams.

ON THE FACE OF IT, the tale of Jonah and the whale offers up whimsy and charm. A man being swallowed by a fish? But when we delve deeper, this Bible story—seen in its metaphorical context—offers profound lessons about the power of one governing Mind.

WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER, and later on when I was in my 20s, Mind became my favorite of the seven synonyms for God given by Mary Baker Eddy in Science and Health. For me, Mind reveals God's infinite, divine capacity of knowing good and acting harmoniously.

HOW DO YOU TELL A POWERFUL KING that he was wrong? A king who had many victories at war and was reverently obeyed by both generals and servants alike? The prophet Nathan did just that in the book of Second Samuel in the Bible, and the story shows that the only way we can effectively point out sin to others is by trusting the communication of divine Mind. In the story, King David lusted after Bathsheba, the wife of one of David's soldiers.