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Some time ago I became seriously ill with what appeared to be influenza. I had a complete healing within a couple of days.

At a Christmas gathering last year, open to all employees of The Mother Church, John Selover, a member of The Christian Science Board of Directors, shared some thoughts that we felt readers of the Journal would appreciate at this season. Thanks for coming, and for joining in this simple celebration of Christmas.

The department of continuing education at Harvard Medical School and the Mind/Body Medical Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, will be holding their sixth conference on "Spirituality & Healing in Medicine" in Boston from December 12 to 14. It will be followed by another in Chicago, Illinois, from March 21 to 23, 1999.

Prayer that uplifts and heals is not an invention of the human mind. It is the God-inspired means for experiencing His help and care in our lives.

The vibrant colors of the morning sunrise enhanced the incredible peace evident in the African Bush. On that beautiful, crystal-clear morning, I could tangibly feel the presence of God—His majesty, grandeur, strength, and loving embrace.

The human body isn't a criminal or wrongdoer. It isn't guilty of the "crime" of disease or other physical discords.

At the back of this magazine there is a directory of practitioners engaged in the public healing ministry of Christian Science. We thought it might be helpful to Journal readers, and especially to those who are considering fuller engagement in Christian Science healing, to hear some of these practitioners share a few thoughts about how they got started in the full-time practice.

It was an early December day in 1968. There was no snow.

The Christmas season. Whatever your view of it—whether you anticipate it with great delight, or perhaps with some sense of dread, or with a combination of these (as many people do)—you may be searching for a way to make this season's activity more truly satisfying for yourself and others.

In the United States, several symposiums on the relationship of prayer and healing have heightened people's curiosity about Christian Science. Senior officials of the Church of Christ, Scientist, have given many talks on the subject, and Christian Science practitioners and lecturers have received numerous invitations from colleges and universities to explain the Church's mission to "reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing.