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"I've had a healing!" my friend exclaimed as we walked away from our branch Church of Christ, Scientist, after a Wednesday evening testimony meeting. He said that he'd felt impelled to come to church, even though he was suffering from a painful condition and had found it difficult to drive.

True peace comes when we realize that our real identity is indissolubly linked to God, the only creator. Recognizing this full measure of dependence upon our Father-Mother Love, we find ourselves uplifted to a grand awareness that man can never be separated from divine Mind's control.

Service on the executive board of a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, provides many opportunities for humility. Humility doesn't mean belittling oneself or the post of board member.

Is there someone in your family that you're not speaking to? Perhaps you long to heal the estrangement, but you just really don't know how or where to begin. Centuries ago the Master, Christ Jesus, presented the way for healing any discordant human relationship.

What are we seeking through prayer? What are we striving to demonstrate? These questions require deep soul-searching to be effectively answered. Are we praying for a job, or one that will provide more money? Perhaps we're seeking a buyer for a house that has been on the market for some time? A happier marriage? Better health? Relief from a personal relationship problem? Whatever our desires, whatever we may be wrestling with, wouldn't it be wise and downright practical for us to put our main effort on demonstrating the goodness of God in our lives and love for one another? With such a priority we would be conforming to Christ Jesus' loving counsel "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Christian Science restores health to the sick, satisfies the lonely, and answers the human need. But spiritual healing is not just a matter of improved material circumstances.

Humanly analyzed, some individuals could be classified as "leaners" and others as "self-reliant. " But no matter what our human tendency has been, each of us needs to evaluate his concept of dependency, not once but frequently, in order to take increasingly progressive steps toward permanent security.

Is music in church contributing to a quickened sense of our Christian mission? To a higher demonstration of health and harmony? It will when we see it as our own individual expression of praise to God. Not that we have to personally perform all or any of the music.

If the love among us seems to be changeable and fleeting, we can be sure this is because we must express more of the Christ-love. This Christly affection tells us to love even if others seem to be cold and full of hate.

The sleepy-looking cartoon character rises from his breakfast table and mumbles, "And now, having satisfied one hundred per cent of my daily requirements, I am returning to bed. " Lee Lorenz, in The New Yorker, October 27, 1975.