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Last year, our daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren were spending a holiday weekend with my wife and me. After enjoying some time outdoors, my daughter and I had just started up the exterior stairs when we heard disturbingly loud cracking sounds.

It was the morning after Christmas, Boxing Day. I had studied the Bible Lesson from the Christian Science Quarterly, which was on the subject of “God.

With her characteristic spiritual insight, the Leader of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, teaches that the mortal self, or personality, is responsible for our troubles. And she points to the solution by stating: “To impersonalize scientifically the material sense of existence—rather than cling to personality—is the lesson of to-day” ( Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, p.

These three words, “Thy kingdom come” ( Matthew 6:10 ), given to us by Christ Jesus in the Lord’s Prayer, are an invitation to let God, not human will, govern our thoughts and actions day by day. Jesus made clear our need to do this at the beginning of his ministry when he said, “Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” ( Matthew 4:17 ).

It was a light wind day,    the breeze as lazy as a cat curled in a spot of sun.   “Trial Island?” coach asked.

Almost anyone who has a computer will certainly have seen this instruction at least once when downloading and installing updates: “Please keep your computer on. ” These updates ensure protection against viruses by closing potential security gaps in the software, and they improve the functioning of applications.

Breaking up with someone who has been important to you can bring a sense of loss, grief, hurt, and sometimes anger. But these feelings are not inevitable.

American humorist Garrison Keillor quipped, “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car. ”  True, yet attending church is so much more than being a “pew potato” instead of a “couch potato.

As Jesus left Jericho with his disciples and a large crowd, blind Bartimaeus sat begging by the side of the road. The Gospel of Mark says, “And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.

In and of themselves, what and if are innocuous words. But paired together, they can twist thought into worry, fear, or regret.