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The Japanese film classic Rashomon tells of an incident seen through the eyes of a small group of characters. Each one reports his own version.

As a boy I found it difficult to obey the law, which I saw as a threat to my freedom. I would hang on the back of moving lorries, climb to the top of sky-high factory smokestacks, and sin of sins, even ride my bike in that sanctum of the pedestrian, the public park.

If we lack necessary funds, employment, a home, or companionship, and are feeling separated from good, we don't need to be discouraged. Circumstances may appear to the contrary, but we can prove that good is omnipresent because good is God.

The true man doesn't live an existence of "jam to morrow and jam yesterday — but never jam to day . " Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass , Chap.

Many people want to lean on God but are afraid, believing they don't know how or aren't worthy. They mistakenly suppose they are outside God's love.

Does mortal mind ever machine-gun its arguments at you so that you can't get a spiritual word in edgewise? You can sentence it to silence. I remember an occasion when this mental provoker had been working overtime to persuade me I was imposed upon and frustrated.

What happens prior to a Christian Science lecture? How do church members prepare themselves? Their community? Human consciousness, left to itself, may present more of an obstacle than a transparency for Christ, Truth. Thought may be congested with fear, self-righteousness, or self-love; temporarily walled in by willful sin; or asleep in satisfaction with matter.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego! How many there are who treasure the well-known Bible story of the three Hebrews whose love for God and faith in His power led them to publicly refuse to worship an image of gold set up by King Nebuchadnezzar—even after they were threatened with death in a fiery furnace. Their adventure has always been a great source of inspiration to me.

There is a brief but interesting episode in the Exodus of the Hebrews out of their bondage to the Egyptian Pharaoh. Moses had led them, under God's protection and guidance, out of Egypt and beyond the realm of Pharaoh's thoughts and actions.

Have we ever felt uninspired, ineffectual, or doubtful about our ability to heal? Then we need to discover just who is doing the healing. In the Old Testament we read, "I am the Lord that healeth thee.