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Faced with a demanding problem, have you ever compared your life with the apparently charmed lives of others? More than once I've heard someone ask, "Why is everyone else happier (or healthier or wealthier) than I am?" I've said it myself. Upon reflection, I wondered if such a lament might be less innocuous than it seems.

I know someone with a license plate that reads AWSWEL (All's Well). He said it is a constant reminder to him and maybe to others who decipher it, that right then and there, all really is well.

Man is not made up . Man is made! This is what stood out to me recently as I read the following words of Mary Baker Eddy in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health : "Man is not matter; he is not made up of brain, blood, bones, and other material elements.

While enrolled in a Greek mythology course, I learned an interesting fact: ancient civilizations often created myths in an attempt to explain scientific phenomena. For example, to answer the question "Why do we have four seasons?" a myth was created in which imagined deities on Mount Olympus mingled with their mortal subjects below.

How are we seeing ourselves and others from day to day? Are we seeing something of the spiritual reality of man as the expression of God, or are we constantly being taken in by the physical senses' estimate of man as a fleshly, sinful mortal? Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy says, "Let the perfect model be present in your thoughts instead of its demoralized opposite. " Science and Health , p.

At the back of this magazine there is a directory of individuals engaged in the public healing ministry of Christian Science. While any sincere student of this Science may practice spiritual healing, individuals advertising in The Christian Science Journal are those who are employed in no other vocation, have an established record of healing, and have met the standards required for advertising.

There's a tendency to want to plan for the future. We want to maximize our achievements and our joy by avoiding mistakes and wasted time.

When the prophet Samuel went to Bethlehem to select from the sons of Jesse one to succeed King Saul, he thought surely the tall, handsome Eliab was "the Lord's anointed. " But he was admonished by God, "The Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

What prompts this letter, specifically, is Nathan Talbot's article in the January issue of The Christian Science Journal and the reports in the Journal of the "Spirituality & Healing in Medicine" symposiums held in Boston in 1995 and 1996. What I want to do is present an idea that has been evolving in my mind over these past months.