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Dear Professor Medlin, Thank you for your e-mail and also thanks for remembering our unforgettable trip during my sabbatical leave at the University of New Mexico. I had a great time traveling with you and listening to your words of wisdom.

EARLY ONE FALL DAY EIGHT YEARS AGO, Freidoon (an Iranian friend visiting us from Australia) and I left Albuquerque, New Mexico, headed for the Bay Area in Northern California where we both had plans to visit relatives and attend meetings. We took turns at the steering wheel every two to three hours as we drove westward across New Mexico and Arizona.

CHRIST JESUS TAUGHT HIS DISCIPLES a succinct and powerful prayer, known universally as the Lord's Prayer. One line in this prayer says, "And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil" ( Matt.

ASCENSION TOWARD HEAVEN is not a one-time happening. Each footstep on our spiritual journey moves us forward, Spiritward.

Contributing Editor Elaine Follis, Ph. D.

IT WAS LATE SEPTEMBER, the first day of autumn. The lush leaves on the maples had not yet begun to turn.

Christian Science has been a way of life for me since I was ten. My brother learned about it through a healing he received by reading an article in the Christian Science Sentinel, which he was given by a friend in school.

The truckload of clothes we had collected had been sent ahead to Native American reservation in the American West. Our eager group of 12 highschool students followed on the first day of spring vacation.

I HAD JUST FINISHED WRITING MY LETTER OF RESIGNATION. However, as desperately as I wanted to give this letter to the principal of the school, I knew one thing: I needed to pray first.

THE INSCRIPTION above the entrance to Plato's Academy in Athens warned, "Let none ignorant of geometry enter here. " The sign over Frank Morgan's office door in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Williams College, a small intellectual powerhouse nestled in the Berkshire foothills of Western Massachusetts, similarly warns (in Greek, no less).