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Later this month, over ten years of work, thought, and prayer will come to fruition as The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity opens its doors to the world community. In the last year, visitors to its web site (www.

At the 2002 Annual Meeting & Conference of The Church of Christ, Scientist, participants embraced three overarching messages: the universality of Christian Science; Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures as a resource for everyone; and Mary Baker Eddy's design for a Church to respond to today's demand for spiritual answers. We are inspired by the notes and e-mails we continue to receive from friends and members who have been motivated by these ideas in their interactions with fellow seekers.

I met them on the Gaspe' Peninsula — at the town called Sainte-Flavie, which is along the northern shore of this very beautiful part of Quebec. "They" are mostly stone or cement figures — eighty of them in all — in an art work known as "Le grand ressemblement" (The Great Gathering).

One morning while he was on his way to school with his mom and his sister, Danielle, Vince learned something about forgiveness. Dani said some mean things to him that morning.

Say you're in a classroom and the blackboard is chalked to its borders with equations. Students at the board calculate their way to answers, maybe hoping for good grades.

As the fight against terrorism continues, people in many parts of the world are making efforts to defang this enemy in their own ways. Among them are three women in Turkey to whom I talked recently.

In the light of religiously-fueled conflicts aroung the globe, many people believe that there has never been a greater need to end religiously-motivated violence than there is today. Governments have made attempts to solve conflicts through the United Nations.

After the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, I felt generally fearful and Jumpy. As I walked in the Boston Garden near my office, I watched the trajectory of every place overhead to see if it would fly into the John Hancock or Prudential Center, the two tallest buildings in Boston.

Last fall there was an exhibit in New York's Grand Central Station of bigger-than-life photo-portraits of many who immediately answered the call to the scene at the World Trade Center. In the stories that accompanied the pictures of each individual, a common theme emerged.

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