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Imagine how it must have felt to be with Jesus after the resurrection. A few days before, it looked to his students as though everything had come to an end.

The land was beautiful. Five acres with southern pines.

Today there is a great need for spiritual education to lift each one of us. The desire to learn more about God and man needs to be satisfied.

In general, the world thinks of man as striving toward God, being rewarded for good behavior and penalized for bad behavior, commonly called sin. Christian Science teaches that our relationship to God is actually very different from this.

Long ago a Christian Science practitioner responded in these words to my complaint over having to struggle with a difficulty: "Well, dear, you've enlisted. Now fight !" Over many years I have learned how valid that admonition was.

A fascinating piece of information is the fact that Thomas Edison and his research team conducted fifty thousand experiments over a period of ten years from 1900 to 1909 before he made a successful alkaline battery. Now that's perseverance! And it hints at a deeper lesson—the great difference between simply trying and doing.

A woman who has since become a good friend of mine told me of a time in her life when she faced an extremely difficult trial. One afternoon when she came home from work, she was informed by the woman she had hired to care for her three-month-old baby that he was weak and suffering from severe diarrhea.

When the American occupation forces came to Japan after World War II, a number of the personnel were Christian Scientists. Japan had never had such an influx of Christian Scientists.

Whether at a shopping mall, on a college campus, or in the foyer of a church, a bulletin board is a great place for people to share information. You can learn a lot about an active community from reading local bulletin boards.

There is such great thirsting of the soul today for spiritual things. To some extent, worldwide there is a turning to religious values.