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How's your praying going? Is it fresh, inspired, full of new views of God's spiritual universe? Or is it routine, repetitious, boring? I don't know about you, but for me this can be a tough question to face—because while I always yearn for the former, sometimes I find the latter. You no doubt have found prayer to be effective in healing.

For me, the "how" of studying the Lesson has to do primarily with focusing both heart and mind on its message. The first lines of Mary Baker Eddy's "Communion Hymn" describe this focus beautifully: "Saw ye my Saviour? Heard ye the glad sound? / Felt ye the power of the Word?" Poems, p.

A young man found himself, year after year, yearning for a companion—a yearning partly motivated by the fear of solitude. Then he started dating a young woman.

A friend of mine told me about a dream he had. He was in the Swiss Alps getting ready to lead a large group of Boy Scouts on a hike.

There is an account in the Bible about a centurion who entreated Christ Jesus to heal his servant. When Jesus said he would go with him to the sick man, the centurion told him it was not necessary.

Shortly before his crucifixion, Christ Jesus stunned his closest disciples by announcing that his earthly mission was drawing to a close. But he also reassured them that what he had taught them would never pass away.

Each year at Christmastime I hunger more and more for the sanctuary of quiet. I seek inconspicuous corners of my day where all the hustle and bustle of secular celebration does not, cannot, intrude.

I suppose most of us have wondered at times, "Why does man exist? What's his purpose?" Christian Science provides an authoritative, Bible-based answer, making it clear that man exists for one primary purpose. In simple terms, the purpose of man is to serve as the manifestation, or evidence, of God's nature.

Each Sunday people all over the world look forward to hearing in Christian Science church services the inspiring and healing Lesson-Sermon read from the Bible and from Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy. Each Wednesday they anticipate meetings where testimonies of healing are given.

Think about where the world was just a century ago. The Wright brothers had just begun experimenting with the principles of flight.