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According to an ancient Egyptian myth, the phoenix was a beautiful, eagle-like bird with gold and red plumage, which lived in the Arabian Desert. Its life span was 500 years or more, at the end of which it consumed itself in fire, rising renewed from its ashes young and beautiful, to start another long life cycle.

On several occasions , when loved ones have passed on, I have been comforted by these words from Mary Baker Eddy's "Communion Hymn": Mourner, it calls you,—"Come to my bosom, Love wipes your tears all away, And will lift the shade of gloom, And for you make radiant room Midst the glories of one endless day. " Christian Science Hymnal , No.

We often hear it said when someone passes on that now this individual is at peace; that he is with God and his misery is over. The belief that death can be a friend that ends suffering is used as an argument to justify euthanasia and assisted suicide.

In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, Mary Baker Eddy devotes an entire chapter — "Christian Science Practice" — primarily to explaining the correct approach to healing through this Science. How does she begin the chapter? Interestingly enough, not with a heavy dose of metaphysical reasoning.

During the thirty -ninth annual congress of Vision New England in Boston in February, there was much talk among the eleven thousand participants about "healthy churches" and "growing churches" and even "perfect churches. " But our News Editor, Kim Shippey, reports that one of the speakers focused instead on the responsibilities of church members.

DO you remember when you first learned to ride a bicycle by yourself? You'd been doing well on training wheels, but maybe you were a little scared at the thought of taking them off. When they were gone, maybe your dad or mom ran alongside while you tried to stay on, or maybe you stayed close to a railing so you could grab on if you started to teeter.

If you had told me as recently as five years ago that I would be a full-time Christian Science practitioner within a few short years, I would have told you, "No way. " I had plans for my life—big plans.

The "Y2K" computer challenge is unprecedented in technological history in terms of its scope and complexity. However, we all have powerful authority for demonstrating the ability to solve any problem through reliance on God.

You've probably never wondered how apples behaved before Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity. It's pretty obvious they wouldn't have occasionally fallen upward just because no one had yet explained the law governing their motion.

Healing is a quiet thing, experienced within the sanctuary of our own thought. Healing is not a miraculous exhibition, but a sign of Immanuel, or "God with us.