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WHEN WE RECENTLY INVITED A LONGTIME VISITOR OF OUR CHURCH TO JOIN, she simply replied, "Yes, I was just waiting for an invitation!" We knew should have asked long ago. Our congregation had been praying for some time about the growth of our church—First Church of Christ, Scientist, in São Paulo, Brazil.

IT ALL STARTED WITH A LITTLE PIECE OF PAPER TACKED ONTO THE DOOR of a building at the corner of 16th and Larimer, in Denver, stating in Spanish: Christian Science Service, 12:00 noon. Long before the first Spanish-language Christian Science service opened in what is known as Denver's metropolitan Christian Science Reading Room, Pete List was librarian at the Boulder Reading Room, approximately 25 miles northwest of Denver.

WHY HAVE A CHURCH? Can't we each just commune alone with our divine Source and feel all the strength, love, and power that come from that precious relationship? We could. If we had to.

I felt like I lived in a cavern deep in the earth without any light. It was the late 1980s, and I was playing out a fast-track career in the movie business.

We live in an age of information overload . Television and radio, newspapers and magazines, advertisements and commercials, Internet blogs, and chat rooms inundate us with continuous coverage and sometimes frightening messages on a variety of topics—including health.

We set up the card table in the living room for an evening of bridge with another young couple we knew. We both had little babies, so we decided to play bridge while the babies slept.

There are words whose very mention evoke a similar reaction from most of us. Tyranny is one of them.

I WAS AT MY WIT'S END. I had completed all the orders for my small floral business.

AN ANCIENT TALE GOES LIKE THIS: As a man and his camel cross the desert, a great sand storm arises. The man jumps off the camel and raises his tent.

• NEGOTIATIONS ARE GOING NOWHERE on a permanent peace agreement between warring factions. One labels the other obstructionist and stubborn.