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Watch your thinking for a day, and you'll discover how much time you're spending with thoughts that are contrary to health and harmony. I determined to do this recently.

While driving through a city several years ago, I was impressed with a question posed on a billboard: "What on earth are you doing for heaven's sake?" This led me to contemplate, what was I doing "for heaven's sake"? The Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, gives the metaphysical interpretation of heaven as "harmony; the reign of Spirit; government by divine Principle; spirituality; bliss; the atmosphere of Soul. "   Science and Health , p.

" From Puritan parents, the discoverer of Christian Science early received her religious education. " Science and Health , p.

I had been thinking more consciously about resurrection as the Easter season approached. Was resurrection only a one-time event that happened centuries ago to the most spiritually-minded man the world has ever known? If it is more than that, what does resurrection mean to each of us? Does it reach down into the details of human experience and actually influence our daily living? I thought of Christ Jesus' rebuke to Peter and the other disciples he took with him into the garden of Gethsemane the night before his crucifixion: "And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

6:31-44 Elated with their victories, the disciples told Jesus all they had accomplished. Tenderly, Jesus invited them to come.

When I was a child, attending Sunday School was an important part of my life especially on Easter Sunday. The flowers were springing up, and there was a sense of renewal all over.

As individuals learn to use Science and Health as a textbook, they find themselves following specific instructions for specific needs. For example, there are definite instructions for giving Christian Science treatment.

Is Science and Health written for, and read by, only those who are members of the Christian Science Church?" a new reader of the book asked me. On most days she visits the local Reading Room with new inquiries about the Bible and Christian Science.

A few years ago I enjoyed watching the film Enchanted April . It includes the story of a woman who comes to realize how "stingy" she has been about loving others, especially her husband.

In our March issue we published excerpts from a talk given by the Chairman of The Christian Science Board of Directors, Virginia S. Harris, at conferences on "Spirituality & Healing in Medicine" in Boston and Houston.