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I got the messages at my office a couple hours after they were left that Friday afternoon. From what sounded like the pay phone at school, my teenage daughter, Carol, asked, "Mom, can I go with Holly to the mall?" Then a second message from home.

The man in the produce department of my local grocery store asked, "Is that your little brother?"—referring to the four-year-old grandson sitting in my grocery cart. Before I knew it, I almost said, "Yes.

Suppose somebody came up to you and said that the universe is made of music. What would you think? Would it have more meaning if the person espousing the view was a physics professor at Johns Hopkins University? In his "Unheard Melodies," Johns Hopkins University professor Donald Hatch Andrews said that in 1924, a young physicist named Louis de Broglie "proposed that the universe is not matter but music.

At one point in my career, I was part of a development team assigned to plan a major business conference for both international and US delegates. Since my group was also responsible for developing much of the content for the two-day meeting, we all needed to maintain great flexibility and creativity, as well as unity and teamwork.

When I began painting these alpine flowers in the summer of 2000, I wanted to capture their perseverance. But it was over the next several months that my own perseverance would be tested.

I Didn't Know What To Do Next. I had been praying about the right job, purpose, fulfillment.

I left Christian Science years ago for a variety of reasons. I was "out there," big time, on a spiritual journey, because spirituality was very important to me.

Beginning in June 2004, after Annual Meeting, The Mother Church is planning to add services in Spanish on Sundays and Wednesdays because of the significant Hispanic population in Boston. First Reader designate Lyle Young, of Ottawa, Canada, says that this is one of the many ways "to help discover the global church community for everyone.

We've thought a lot about how our church can be more healing. And we realize that prayer is the best thing going.

The whole thing about a really vital church service—the thing that keeps people's attention and creates a climate for healing—is freshness. You feel that at other churches, like the Baptist churches in our community.