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Having Just dropped my children off at school, I was on my way to an appointment. The idea came, as I drove past our subdivision, to go back home and change my shoes! "How odd," I thought, looking down at my shoes and wondering what was wrong with the ones on my feet.

" Manger moments " I call them—times of turning to God with humility to receive more of His Christ. In these quiet moments, I've glimpsed the magnitude of Jesus' mission, the purity of his life-purpose.

What's the use? I almost said. I had been praying for myself for several days, but I wasn't healed of an ugly skin eruption.

Perhaps nothing propels us forward more than spiritual inspiration. Human reasoning has its ups and downs, which may not get us very far.

When I was in high school, my parents were told by the school counselors that I had a very low IQ. They said I didn't have the intelligence to finish high school.

The most rapid communication in the world does not require wires, nor does it even need radio waves. It comes from Mind, God, who is constantly communicating His thoughts to His idea, His creation.

While I'm sure that both of our parents loved my sister and me greatly, my sense of competition with a well-behaved and talented older sister led me to be the family mischief-maker. A ballet class recital set the scene for a change in all this, however.

Dr. Hamid Varasteh is an attorney active in international legal services and arbitration, living in Teheran, Iran.

Every year, beginning right after Thanksgiving, I make a special effort to find a fresh view of what Christmas reveals about God. And each year, one sentence or phrase from the Bible or the writings of Mary Baker Eddy has taken on new meaning for me.

Every Christmas reminds me that the reason people love hearing the account of Jesus' birth again and again is that it hints at something we intuitively know: that although we weren't present at the first Christmas, we can still receive the Christ. Christ comes to us right now, where we are.