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NORM : The arrival many years ago of our adopted daughter, Emily, from Korea, caused Bonnie and me to reexamine the whole question of identity. I have to admit that at first we felt comfortable for the wrong reasons.

If you are planning to attend Annual Meeting 2002 and the special preview of The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity, now's the time to register and make your travel arrangements. Three special days of events and programs, June 3–June 5 Monday, June 3: Annual Meeting 2002, 10 a.

During this year's Annual Meeting, outgoing President Bill Moody gave a report on trips he had made over the past year to learn firsthand how people's lives have been transformed, healed, and saved by reading Science and Health. He said: "There's no question that humanity is in the midst of a spiritual revolution.

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.