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If your human history and mine had been written down, how might they read? There would probably be a series of events that included some highs and some lows. We might find that certain opportunities were fulfilled but that others appeared foreclosed because of what had gone before.

Recently we visited a historic site in Wales, in the west of the British Isles, which was originally a Roman gold mine. We climbed a steep hill from where we could see the surrounding countryside and get a feel for the ancient use of the area.

My husband and I had been married for several years, and while we each had our maturing to do, it seemed we were growing together to a degree. So it came as a surprise when he told me point-blank that he didn't love me anymore, and that he was in love with a woman he had met at work.

After Mary Baker Eddy discovered Christian Science in 1866, she worked over many years to clarify the spiritual rules of healing inherent in its theology. Along the way, her students were the recipients of her clearer views, and wrote many valuable accounts of what she taught them.

Don't you love to watch the sunrise and sunset? Think of the rotation of the earth, the revolution of the planets, the perfect order of the universe. We never doubt this sublime order will continue.

Do you recall the old saying "A chain is no stronger than its weakest link"? For the most part, that's a pretty sound observation. It would seem, for example, that what holds an organization together is an invisible bond susceptible to breakage when one individual fails to uphold his responsibility to the others.

Just over a century ago, following the dedication of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mary Baker Eddy published a note in which she brings out several important points concerning this Church, its impact on the world, its relation to other churches, and on the relation of Christian Scientists to one another. On this last point she writes: "Christian Scientists, their children and grandchildren to the latest generations, inevitably love one another with that love wherewith Christ loveth us; a love unselfish, unambitious, impartial, universal,—that loves only because it is Love.

As more and more people become aware of the connection between spirituality and health, they are reaching out for answers. Individuals and branch Churches of Christ, Scientist, are responding by sharing Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

If we're faced with a difficult physical condition, we don't need to succumb to depression or fear. Nor need we ask in despair, " Why me? " Help is available when we turn wholly to God, Spirit.

Several years ago while I was a member of a large, active branch Church of Christ, Scientist, our family moved to a community where there was a very small branch church. Leaving close friends and a church we loved very much wasn't easy.