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When a new spiritual idea is borne to earth, the prophetic Scripture of Isaiah is renewedly fulfilled: "Unto us a child is born, .

On the Cambridge shore of the serpentine Charles River stand the stately buildings of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Boldly engraved, high up on the sides of the buildings, are the names of some of those who made lasting contributions to mankind's progress: Newton, Aristotle, Wren, Gutenberg, and others.

Deep within each individual is the desire to feel and express wholeness and innocence. We naturally long to express in our lives the goodness that helps the whole world to be better.

Do we have to wait for good? No! Are solutions to problems right at hand? Yes! Why? Because God is All-in-all, the source and substance of all true being. His ongoing wholeness is forever being demonstrated right here in our lives and needs to be claimed now.

The divine reality of God's perfect creation awakens within humanity the deepest desire to understand and accept the full promise that man is perfect now as the spiritual child of God. By reason of man's sonship with God, as affirmed by the Scriptures, perfect completeness and goodness is God's will for man, an ever-present fact of his true and only identity.

The Christmas season is lengthening. In our shopping centers, Christmas used to wait in the wings for Thanksgiving.

"A Workshop on church music? That's really great for our organist and soloist! I hope they read it. But since I'm not a musician, I'll turn the page and see what's on the 'Church Bulletin Board.

She sat at her home computer and moved the "mouse" around to draw a big heart. She was using a graphics software package to make valentines for her kindergartners.

It's exhilarating to begin to see what it means to be man—the beloved of God. But to know what God has made man to be, and then to begin to live what that means, is demanding as well.

One year, in watching a particular football team make it to the Super Bowl, I realized better what it takes to be a real professional. I saw that consistency in always doing one's best, striving for a better performance, and being willing to cooperate with one's teammates are essential to success.