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Economic stress is not new to mankind. The human picture swings from abundance to lack and limitation, and vice versa.

Would you rather be a shepherd or a sheep? The Bible implies that we're sheep. Our spiritual sense (if we listen carefully) tells us we're sheep—that we are loved, guided, fed, and protected by God, the Supreme Being.

All that we experience is included in our consciousness. Or, we might say, we unfold what we enfold.

Will looking through the material senses show us how to deal effectively with the social, economic, and political crises facing the world? Probably not. Can the nature of infinite Spirit, God, be discerned from examining finite matter in any of its forms? Definitely not.

After the dark night, there is the silent, golden dawn. After the cold winter, spring bursts out, never failing to arouse awe with its slender crocuses piercing frozen snows and its myriad voices rejoicing in the green.

When Jesus turned the water into wine at a wedding, John 2:1-11. surely he did more than just help out the hospitable host whose supply had run out on this festive occasion.

And why is it a family affair? Because whether writing articles or reading them, revising articles or editing them, Christian Scientists are engaged together in pursuits related to their own salvation and to the salvation of the world. Like family members whose varied interests are joined by common goals, Christian Scientists everywhere share a common goal in each day's activities, however diverse these activities may be—the goal of salvation from the entire lie of life, substance, and intelligence in matter.

Quiz: Who's the author of "The proof of the pudding is in the eating"—(a) Thomas Edison, (b) Alexander Graham Bell, (c) Orville or Wilbur Wright? Answer: Miguel de Cervantes in his romance Don Quixote. But it might have been (a), (b), or (c).

"Spiritual discernment," a frequently used term in Christian Science, has to do with perceiving what we know to be true in our experience, as opposed to believing only what we see or hear. It has to do with the nature of Life as God, Soul or Spirit, and understanding its full representation—the real man and the real universe.

Healing in Christian Science is a matter of knowing who you are. It comes through the practice of scientific metaphysics.