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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.

Some time ago I was given a book containing pages of miscellaneous artwork. Each page seemed to be a hodgepodge of colors, representing nothing in particular.

What does it mean to be really intimate? A close, intimate relationship is one in which we feel safe and secure—able to be ourselves—and feel loved, lovable, and loving. In Soul Mates, Thomas Moore says, "In order to cultivate intimacy we need to find forms of expression that emerge from and touch the soul.

Who Hasn't wished he or she could give quick, intelligent answers to tough questions, make insightful comments, or recall facts and figures more accurately? The good news is that we all can. We can break away from material definitions of intelligence and awake to the fact that God is infinite Mind.

A directory in the back of this magazine lists names of people all over the world who devote their full professional time to Christian healing. People who have never talked with a Christian Science practitioner sometimes ask what they should say and what the practitioner does.