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For many years, I had a job designing electric circuit breakers. I enjoyed the job because I liked to make things work.

Do you worry about what's ahead? Have you ever wished you could go back to the past and change events, conversations, even beliefs you once held? When we look back and entertain unhappy memories or anticipate events and conversations that we believe are inevitable in the future, we are actually taking the present vital moment to "live" somewhere else. Focusing on either the past or the future can mean trapping ourselves on a mental treadmill where we don't progress.

Mary Baker Eddy devoted more than four decades to communicating the divine laws of Life, Truth and Love to the world. She healed, taught, preached, lectured, mentored, and published.

"I think it's just fantastic! I can't put it down—I'm reading it every chance I get. " (New Zealand) "Seeing an amazing response in my patients to the truth of being.

"Is it too much to say that this book is leavening the whole lump of human thought? You can trace its teachings in each step of mental and spiritual progress, from pulpit and press, in religion and ethics, and find this step either written or indicated therein. It has mounted thought on the swift and mighty chariot of divine Love, which to-day is circling the whole world.

These excerpts are from a letter written by a former colleague of the practitioner in response to the Editors' request for verification of the healing described in the interview with the practitioner. The verifier's comments point to the wide embrace of spiritual healing.

These comments on getting started in the public healing ministry are drawn from an interview with a Christian Science practitioner in Africa. Christ Jesus was very humble and meek.

When I first found out about the possibility of relying on God for healing, I began using for myself the truths I was learning. But I wondered how I would help my children through spiritual healing.

I had some wonderful teachers in the Christian Science Sunday School. They knew the Bible well and taught me about the life and works of Christ Jesus.

The burgeoning quest for spirituality coinciding with humanity's crossing into a new millennium has led many thinkers to explore in depth the relationship between human progress and spiritual development. Over the past three years, some of these thought-leaders in medicine, theology, science, publishing, and related fields have been invited to talk with the employees of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston.