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Picture one of the gates leading into the Jewish temple at Jerusalem. Daily, a cripple is laid outside this gate to beg.

How well I remember my feelings as a teen-ager when reading great classic novels of tragic love! The characters seemed a cut above ordinary mortals, whose humdrum lives called for less extreme sacrifices. How magnificent, I thought, to love that deeply and suffer accordingly! As a young actress, I was attracted to tragic roles, ignoring the fact that my talent lay more in the line of comedy.

"A small lump appeared. At first I ignored it," a friend wrote.

The traditional Christian standard of care rests on Christ Jesus' parable of the good Samaritan. The parable's message provides a theological basis for supplying physical care to one in need.

In the past several years, society has shown increasing concern over the dangers inherent in personal domination. Mind control, child abuse, and other unhealthy relationships have received this awakened attention.

Christ Jesus brought immediate healing to those in need. One day when he was in Capernaum, an officer of the Roman army came to him.

A winding mountain road in the Sierra Nevada of California, flanked by great pines and leading to our cabin, proved instrumental in helping me to demonstrate a metaphysical truth. At first, whenever I left the cabin, I would invariably turn in the wrong direction to get to the nearest town.

How deeply have you pondered the fact that your identity, your very being or real selfhood, is the deliberate, explicit expression of God and of His will? The entire creation is the consummation of His will. Manifesting the infinite "I AM," His ideas or children are unique in their individual identity.

Is it possible to be on a journey and yet immovably fixed at the same time? Christian Science and spiritual sense teach us that man is always held in God's tender, infinitely loving care, that he never moves away from the Father-Mother God. Yet our human lives go through many changes—changes that may be frightening or disturbing.

In a courtroom, a defense attorney interviewing jurors to serve on a case involving physical injury learned that one of them was a student of Christian Science. He asked her, "Do you think pain is real? " "It certainly is real to one experiencing it," she replied.