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Much of what we see going on in the world and in our lives seems to be a process that we have little or no influence over. This perception leads to a sense of futility and hopelessness.

Dedicating ourselves to God is a joyous, expansive, and satisfying way of life. And that dedication demands the spiritual consistency to face down temptations with honesty and dominion—and joy, which is given to us by God.

Joy —we all want it and we all need it, and yet in difficult circumstances we've all felt cut off from it. Joy, however, is central to Christian healing.

Joy is so natural to Christian healing that the disciples of Christ Jesus could "rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory," I Pet. 1:8.

Christians are commanded to cast out devils, or evils. Does this include the evil called violence? Christ Jesus cast out this evil when he healed a violently insane man.

During his three-year ministry, Christ Jesus overcame innumerable forms of evil, healing people of all kinds of maladies, freeing them from all kinds of sin, even overcoming death. Jesus' pure, spiritual love for God and man, as well as his understanding of God's omnipotence, enabled him to bless people in ways they had never before thought possible.

Each Lesson-Sermon published in the Christian Science Quarterly—Bible Lessons is designed to be complete in itself. Its Bible references (King James Version) are corroborated and explained by passages from the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

Toward the end of last year The Boston Parents' Paper presented a panel discussion on "Nurturing Spirituality in Children" in the Sunday School auditorium of The First Church of Christ, Scientist (The Mother Church), in Boston. On the panel were religious educators from six different faiths, who were invited to tackle such questions as "Where do spiritual values come from?" and, "How do we share them with our children?" Our Features Editor, Kim Shippey, offers some observations on the discussion, which was the second in a series being planned for the Boston area.

The demand for spirituality "The time for thinkers has come. "   Science and Health , p.

I think of Abigail as the woman who made a man king.  See I Sam.