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A friend of mine recently told about a motivational talk she had attended. The speaker and his wife had eliminated from their experiences activities that they felt were not mentally positive.

THE New Testament and the writings of Bible scholars provide relatively little information about the life and works of the early Church worker named Stephen. Much of what we know about him appears in the sixth and seventh chapters of Acts.

When I was quite little, my mother and I went to the movies, and I wanted to sit in the balcony. When we got up there, my mother couldn't move from the back of the balcony.

SO often it seems easier to accept imperfection as being closer to the norm, and perfection as the more elusive or abnormal state of things. Yet this really shouldn't be the case, since the Holy Bible makes clear that "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.

It's always fascinating to look out from an airplane and see reflected sunlight flashing from car windshields thousands of feet below. This light has a penetration brighter than any lighthouse, because we are seeing the rays of the sun itself.

When we've experienced the power of God that eliminates sin and sickness, we readily rely on God's laws as given in Christian Science for healing and for the resolution of our problems. Naturally we are concerned if a healing seems delayed.

Hanging on the wall next to our front door is a World War I bayonet reconfigured into a candlestick. It's an especially appealing piece of artwork because of what it signifies.

When circumstances in our lives seem discordant or out of control, this declaration of God's absolute sovereignty— found in Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy—can be greatly reassuring: 'All 'is under the control of the one Mind, even God. " Science and Health, p.

This  series of articles focuses on the healings brought about by Mary Baker Eddy. These healings began in her childhood and continued throughout her life—some of them have not been previously published.

Mary Baker Eddy tells us in The People's Idea of God: "We are all sculptors, working out our own ideals, and leaving the impress of mind on the body as well as on history and marble, chiselling to higher excellence, or leaving to rot and ruin the mind's ideals. Recognizing this as we ought, we shall turn often from marble to model, from matter to Mind, to beautify and exalt our lives.