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World peace starts with all of us in our own homes. It is the combined product of individual peace.

Today the world cries out for love. Headlines and newscasts seem almost to beg for the comfort of something beyond materiality.

Are you looking for a guideline in your daily thinking and acting? Can monotheism be that guide? Can we apply the worship of one God in a practical way, a way that leads to healing? As we acknowledge only one God we begin to see that there is only one creative intelligence, the divine Mind, the central power governing the universe. Christian Science shows us that we can trust this power to govern our individual lives.

In the book We Knew Mary Baker Eddy George Wendell Adams relates a story Mrs. Eddy told in one of her classes.

One of the joys of Christian Science is discovering the deeper meanings, powers, and practicalities of spiritual ideas. One such idea with unlimited healing potential is the great truth that God and His infinite expression constitute the totality of being and doing.

There was a strange device among the art exhibits. A board lay on the floor.

Even if the eyes are not closing and the head is not nodding, we may be asleep in church. During my college days I had a difficult time staying awake in church; my eyes would glaze over, and my thought would drift.

Doing something involuntarily or merely because we "have always done it that way" can dig a rut. It is performance without thinking.

Hasn't each of us made an unfortunate remark about another in jest and then hoped others would forget it? In such instances an underlying error of thought may be coming to the surface to be healed. Isn't such critical thinking ignorant of divine Love's all-inclusive embrace of its unlimited creation of perfect spiritual ideas? No one can be displaced in God's kingdom.

Whenever and wherever people get together to pursue a common aim, they have to work as a team if they are going to attain their goal. Individuals working together in harmony can achieve a great deal.