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Have you ever had the experience, as I have, of leaving late for an appointment and finding everything "conspiring" to make you even later—your keys not where you always keep them, your gas gauge on empty, the traffic lights all red? A little lateness snowballs into more lateness. The same thing happens with things like loneliness and rejection.

The World Service of The Christian Science Monitor I'm an avid listener of all the Monitor programmes throughout the week, including the weekend religious items and The Mother Church Sunday services. Indeed, Monitor Radio is about as unbiased and constructive as media can be—something we really need today.

The Bible declares, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. "   John 1:1.

Sharing the Sentinel, Journal, and Heralds Part one of this Workshop (October 1991 Journal ) invited readers to take a fresh look at sharing the periodicals with others. For those of us who had thought sharing the periodicals was a nice activity—for other people—the October Workshop offered practical suggestions for beginning to see ourselves as active sharers.

I can remember asking the person who first introduced me to Christian Science so many questions starting with a "why?" that she once goodnaturedly suggested that my "why?" had begun to sound like a "whine. " The type of questions I asked were not uncommon.

A friend once wrote me about a talk he'd given on art criticism to a group of educators. When he came to the end of his talk, he felt there was still more to say.

" In the world ye shall have tribulation," our great Master, Christ Jesus, explained to his disciples before his crucifixion. "But," he encouraged, "be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Shortly after Mary Baker Eddy (then Mary Patterson) discovered that the healing power of the Christ was still intact and still available to anyone who understood it, she learned a valuable lesson, one that stood as a beacon to her ever after. One of her students, Sue Harper Mims, recounts this in her reminiscences of Mrs.

Christian Science fulfills such joy and hope in people who practice its teachings that they are often a bit surprised that these teachings are not more widely accepted. Should this ignorance or rejection of Science discourage those who wish to see everyone benefit by its discovery? Not at all! We have only to think of Christ Jesus for our answer.

Christ Jesus has always been closely associated with peace. When he was born in Bethlehem, angels heralded his birth with the pronouncement of "on earth peace, good will toward men.