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In the Christian Science Sunday School, which I started attending when I was eleven, I discovered something wonderfully comforting and at the same time eye-opening: God is the Father and Mother of all; therefore, man is God's beloved child. This discovery of God's fatherhood and motherhood was particularly meaningful to me at that time because my mother had just passed on, and my father proved unable to care for my younger brother and me.

In many ways it was like a marriage. There were promises—covenants they called them.

Many of us tend to be wary of "adventure. " The word itself can imply a hazardous undertaking with an unknown outcome.

Looking back over my life, if I were asked to sum up what ingredient has been most indispensable to me in opening the door to healing, I would be inclined to answer "spiritual discipline. " The hardest thing for most of us is getting and keeping control over thoughts which argue that we are weak, sinful mortals.

Through the study of Christian Science, we learn that every disturbing physical, emotional, or personal problem can be rectified and healed through a surrender to metaphysical facts. The Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mrs.

The days were very cold, and they were growing shorter. On each afternoon's walk my shadow looked longer.

In families, at school, in our workplace and community, we have continuous opportunities to learn more about working together. And we discover that working harmoniously with others is not just pleasant; if it's undergirded by a heartfelt love for God and man, it's strengthening and progressive.

When I was a child playing football with a group of friends, I was pushed into a bush while running down a sideline. A sharp stick scratched across my eye and caused injury next to the socket.

Warren Bolon has visited several African countries, representing the Clerk 's Department of The Mother Church. His most recent visit was to Zaire, and he agreed to share with Journal readers excerpts from his own journal, in which he recorded impressions and prayers while in Zaire.

During an assignment in India, I was reminded by local citizens of a famous and well-reported event that happened nearby in the last century. Sir Charles Napier, whose statue stands today in London's Trafalgar Square, triumphed over a circumstance that many feared could have been fatal.