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Have you ever had a weed in your garden that you diligently dug out—with every bit of root you could find—only to have it reappear later? It takes vigorous, repeated efforts to get rid of tough weeds, doesn't it! I found self-justification to be such a weed in my mental garden. At first I didn't even know it was there.

In the Christian Science Hymnal there's a hymn adapted from a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier that counsels us to follow the disciples' example in our response to Christ. One stanza reads: In simple trust like theirs who heard, Beside the Syrian sea, The gracious calling of the Lord, Let us, like them, without a word Rise up and follow thee.

It was the first week of school, and Jennifer, a kindergartner, wouldn't let go of her teacher. Unlike children inclined to cling, Jennifer was not shy or afraid of the other children.

What is demonstration in Christian Science? It is not getting things. It's not getting everything from parking places to good jobs and healed bodies, although these are sometimes referred to as "demonstrations.

" Come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord. " Isa.

When I was a little girl of eight, a loving neighbor heard that nothing more could be done to alleviate the intense pain I was suffering from mastoiditis. But she did something about it.

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SHARE THE JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY From a sermon delivered at Seattle First Baptist Church by Dr. Rodney R.

When I was a boy, I often spent summers at my grandfather's place in a small Florida community on the banks of the Alafia River. It was on that river, and in the woods that lined its course, where I first began to feel stirrings of a sense of reverence and wonder about the natural world.

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