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As members of The Mother Church, we are asked by our Leader to do special daily praying for ourselves. In the Manual of The Mother Church, Mary Baker Eddy says, "It shall be the duty of every member of this Church to defend himself daily against aggressive mental suggestion, and not be made to forget nor to neglect his duty to God, to his Leader, and to mankind.

" Lighten up!" Could that be what God says when He creates the world? And the serpent who tempts Eve—is he "one bad dude"? This might sound light-years away from the Renaissance English of the King James Bible. And it is.

How many times have we wished we could take back words we've said, cancel reactions, perhaps even start a relationship over again? Most of us can probably think of quarrels we could have prevented by more patience, compassion, understanding, humor, or humility. While some believe that letting anger out is therapeutic, most people would probably agree that the genuine exercise of these gentler qualities is more likely to bring peaceful relations with others.

How often we hear it said that something is "just too good to be true" or that because things are going so well, something bad is bound to happen. And who can deny that one's experience and health are directly influenced by such expectations? As Job put it, "For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me.

Two summers ago I spent a short time helping to excavate an archaeological site in the southwestern United States. As I worked, I found myself thinking more and more about the fact that, throughout history, Christ, Truth, continuously communicates itself.

The system of divine healing found in Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health is making known the power of God to heal spiritually—the book is "open for all to read and understand," See Science and Health , p. 559.

Recently my father passed away. Despite the sadness that often attends such occasions, I found it to be a time of intense spiritual growth.

In July the United States Congress placed a one-year moratorium on efforts by the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to remove from state laws the existing accommodations of spiritual healing for children. In general these state laws have stated that, in caring for a child's health, a parent's decision to use spiritual means instead of conventional medicine shall not of itself be deemed neglectful or abusive.

"Thoughts that heal" From South East Magazine (Australia), February 15-19, 1993 by Ken Packer "Do we dream of personal power, social superiority, or public prestige? Do we hunger for money, for material possessions, and a luxurious lifestyle? "These desires come from one source only, namely, from ideas which we allow to lodge in our minds. And going one step further, so that our musings develop into unrestrained lust, amounts to our thoughts taking us prisoner! "But God can help us turn the tables by 'bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ' (II Corinthians 10.

In 1993, meetings were held throughout the United States and in many other countries focusing on the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science. The purpose of these meetings was to engage church members in making the revealed Comforter, the divine Science which Christ Jesus taught and practiced, more widely known to all mankind through Science and Health.