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Centuries ago, at a certain hour of prayer, two men approached a temple whose gate was called Beautiful. They found a lame man there, who had been laid daily at the gate to beg alms.

Sometimes when you are going about your daily activity, do you catch yourself wondering "Why am I doing this?" That question can arise even when we're busy with the very legitimate responsibilities of breadwinning or homemaking. At times, human obligations seem to weigh heavily, even make us feel we're boxed in by a situation we'd rather be free to leave.

Recently our branch Church of Christ, Scientist, had a wonderful election meeting. Following the meeting there was such a sense of gratitude and joy.

A woman and her husband arrived early at a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. He was to usher that Sunday morning and had things to do to prepare for the service.

This article is based on a talk given at the 1985 Christian Science University and College Organizations Meeting held in Boston. The theme of the meeting was "Individual spirituality and the future of mankind.

If you had been living a moral, law-abiding, blameless life and were suddenly accused of being a thief, wouldn't you hasten to proclaim your innocence? Are we just as quick to say "not guilty" when it appears we are sick, too old, too poor, and so on? As God's child, man is not subject to such conditions but is under the divine law of good—of health, joy, love. This spiritual law does not give us the right to break the justly conceived statutes of government.

What does it mean to be a law to oneself? The writer of Proverbs observes of a man, "As he thinketh in his heart, so is he. " Prov.

As a child I loved the truths of Christian Science, but after my school years, this love was sometimes more academic than living and practical. When I faced a challenge, I was tempted to feel overwhelmed.

•One evening a man was crossing a street at a dark intersection. Halfway across the street he felt impelled to stop immediately and did so.

Someone once asked a friend who was a Christian Scientist how he could be expected to maintain a spiritual sense of existence while living in a big city that had a reputation for materialism. The quick and succinct response was "Frequent station identification.