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I think we are all "in speechless prayer and reverence. " saying in the words of hymn 151 "dear Lord, [we] come to Thee.

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 18 YEARS, teachers of Christian Science from all over the world met in Boston for a family gathering. Discussion groups, panels, and just warm connecting—or reconnecting—with friends and classmates filled two days in an unseasonably mild November in 2006.

I'VE COME TO REALIZE that in order to have direction in life you don't necessarily need to have an agenda, for example, a career plan, a school plan, a relationship plan—or any plan at all. Of course, if you do have one, and it happens to work out, that's great.

I grew up with my parents' religion, but it wasn't for me. So when I was 13, I began going on my own to some other churches.

I remember that when my dad came for my arraignment in court, my younger brother was with him, and he was crying about the situation. And I knew I'd really let my family down.

DECEMBER 1982. A telephone call from my 22-year-old daughter awakened me in the middle of the night.

God is Spirit; therefore the language of Spirit must be, and is, spiritual. Christian Science attaches no physical nature and significance to the Supreme Being or His manifestation; mortals alone do this.

WHEN I BEGAN TO STUDY CHRISTIAN SCIENCE I was delighted to find in Science and Health, a glossary, which offers the spiritual sense—the original meaning—for many Biblical terms. I had often felt that some of the Bible verses had deeper and more significant meaning than appears on the surface.

BURIAL. Corporeality and physical sense put out of sight and hearing; annihilation.

ALTHOUGH TRADITIONALLY ANGELS HAVE BEEN Portrayed as ethereal beings, who make announcements (for example see Luke 1:11—38 in the Bible) and bring blessings from God, Mary Baker Eddy's explanation of angels in the Glossary in Science and Health gives a spiritual view of angels that can be proved practical in any situation. She wrote: "Angels.