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These are the words from the first public thank-you from The Christian Science Board of Directors to 80 donors who gave original letters written by Mrs. Eddy to The Mother Church in 1917.

Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you .

" Hey, you ! Get down on the floor and give me 25 pushups!" When I was in the Army, my very presence seemed to enrage our mess hall sergeant. I couldn't do anything right.

Eating when you're not hungry. Talking when there's nothing to say.

For as long as I could remember, I'd been the classic overachiever. I'd pushed myself progressively harder and harder.

Sometimes, what's familiar suddenly looks new. That's what happened to me one day when I was reading the chapter "Christian Science Practice" in Science and Health.

Active waiting on God is a very powerful form of prayer. For me, this kind of waiting has involved a commitment to get off dead center, old ways of thinking and acting, and to expect forward movement and progress.

My wife gave me a small shortwave radio .

Remember the eunuch of Biblical fame? There he sat in his chariot reading the Scriptures, trying in vain to make something of them. But their meaning was lost on him.

From my earliest years, curiosity about the origin and nature of life has catalyzed ceaseless questions for me, as well as a great deal of study and work in the biological and physical sciences. I've observed, queried, and studied even the minutest details of the environment and organisms.