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The ability to detect error in human thought and bring about correction is fundamental to Christian healing. The Christian Science text-book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, says, "Acquaintance with the Science of being enables us to commune more largely with the divine Mind, to foresee and foretell events which concern the universal welfare, to be divinely inspired,—yea, to reach the range of fetterless Mind.

Remembering and forgetting: two important concepts. It's vital to know, though, just what we should remember—and what we ought to forget.

So many of us do it, year after year. We look forward to that "clean slate" given by consensus on January 1, and we make resolutions.

Frequent contributor Lois Carlson writes about a Bible teaching that has brought peace and progress in her life. I remember a time early one January when I was praying to know God's direction for the coming year.

From church doors wide open for round-the-clock prayer to a Sunday School session on the beach, the events marking 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 planned their own responses to address the specific needs of young people in their community.

When I was concerned that our small church congregation didn't seem to have many resources to help our community, I realized I needed to have a more spiritual outlook on the whole scene. In praying daily for our community, I thought of a little town that's mentioned a number of times in the Bible: Bethlehem.

Recently I heard a radio announcer say: "Everyone prepare yourself. It's flu season again!" Then he went on to say that even though flu shots are often recommended, they are sometimes ineffective or have negative side effects.

Father and daughter freed from HIV Before Being Acquainted with Christian Science, I was always annoyed with problems: financial problems, relationship problems. But the severest problem I had was HIV.

In the "Mind and Body" column in The Boston Globe of August 4, 1996, Madeline Drexler wrote: "Diseases aren't always universal events—we often get sick in the way society tells us to get sick. And just as clothes and cuisines go in and out of style, medical diagnoses and the way we interpret illnesses are fashioned by culture.

It was with a feeling of exhilaration that many of us watched the telecasts of worldwide celebrations last New Year's Eve. The sheer joy and unity of spirit with which people of various cultures welcomed the year 2000 were unforgettable.