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As six-year-old with floppy brown hair and a backpack bulging with his roller blades waved a quick goodbye to me in the airport as he bounded off for home with his parents. I had the feeling that he had taught me something very important on the flight we'd just shared, though it took me a few days to figure out what it was.

Does It Sometimes Feel like a battle to be good, to see good, to feel good? Sometimes it has to me. But I'm most successful when I realize that goodness is actually a result of law and that it is our nature to surrender to this law.

Each year, The Christian Science Monitor, in cooperation with the National Foundation for Women Legislators, presents an award for academic excellence to a young woman. Last November, John Selover, Manager of The Christian Science Publishing Society, presented Amber Wallin with the award at the NFWL conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.

" What Impresses Me about Mary Baker Eddy," said Lynn sculptor Reno Pisano at last December's unveiling of his bronze relief of Mrs. Eddy, "is the power and the strength of her convictions.

It's so easy to get into the habit of looking back with regret or melancholy. Or to believe that good things can come only in the future when certain conditions are met.

"Mainstreaming Spirituality: The Next Step" was the theme of the Spirituality & Healing in Medicine conference offered in Boston last December. Senior Staff Editor Gail Gilliland reports on the latest in a series of courses offered for credit by the Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing Education in conjunction with the Mind/Body Medical Institute of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and with financial support from the Templeton Foundation, the conference once again explored the relationship between spirituality and healing in medical practice.

When I'm Faced with a difficult situation, I find it greatly reassuring that Jesus was never in awe of illness or calamity. He knew that God's goodness and power could triumph in any situation.

Mary Baker Eddy's groundbreaking book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, was first published 125 years ago. For more than a century, this book has met humanity's increasing demand for a more spiritual understanding of health, a better basis for lasting relationships, and a greater sense of security and peace.

A few years ago , a family of birds and a large pussycat helped me better understand God's saving and protecting power, which is available to everyone every moment. One day I was walking in a garden that had a summer house, a shelter made primarily of glass.

World Wide Weekend 2000 focused on the healing role of Sunday School in young people's lives. The Mother Church and branch churches around the world continue to plan their own responses to address the specific needs of young people in their community.