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For eleven weeks this past summer, music and Bible stories filled that air over one of Boston's favorite meeting places, the fountain at Christian Science Plaza, 175 Huntington Avenue. Summer SOULstice was a series of events designed to provide neighborhood children and their families with cultural exploration, education, and spiritual enrichment—companions to the natural refreshment of a splash in the fountain.

When I graduated from college, I was required to serve in the United States military during the war in Vietnam. At that time I could see no reason for my having to go into this conflict and convinced myself that there must be a place for me to fulfill my military obligation where I would not be put into a combat situation.

While I was at the grocery store, a bird somehow made its way down the chimney into my house. It was now fluttering desperately against the large picture windows.

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.