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Once when I was feeling burdened, I spoke of several problems with some intensity to a friend. She said quietly: "You know, you should watch your adjectives.

Somewhere along the way we may have picked up the notion that spiritual growth is accomplished by constantly adding spiritual ideas to the memory banks of a computer-like consciousness— the premise being that spiritual growth is the mere accumulation of spiritual facts. If we go along with this belief, we may find ourselves unthinkingly reading, and perhaps collecting, everything we can find on the subject of Christian Science, in hopes it will make us more spiritual.

Occasionally, although the letter of Christian Science is clear to us, a desired healing seems slow. What is needed here? Often it is spiritual conviction— knowing that we are "healed" because, in our true and only being, we are immediate reflections of the one perfect One.

When its presence is accepted, Christ heals. Those healed by Christ Jesus proved this centuries ago, and many are proving this today.

I always thought I was prepared to tell others about Christian Science. But then, while I was explaining to an inquiring friend some of the basics, with Science and Health in hand, she said, "Some book! Got a spare?" And there I sat with my one and only copy—leather and inscribed, no less (a gift from my father), all chalked up, scribbled in, and brimming with metal markers and bits of paper bearing citations of special note.

Teaching in the Christian Science Sunday School can be an adventure in being obedient to Mrs. Eddy's words, "All God's servants are minute men and women.

As Christian Scientists, we say we understand the truth Christ Jesus demonstrated and Christian Science explains, but are we proving that truth and our understanding of it by healing? We can, for spiritual truth is absolute Science. Its invariable laws and rules are all there, revealed to Mrs.

At a place where two streets come to a point, there's a sign that says "Yield. " The car on the "Yield" side came speeding around the slight curve, cutting in ahead of me without braking.

Unselfish caring for people in need by individuals and organizations expresses a mothering, protecting love and does much to alleviate suffering and privation. Desirable as such physical care may be, it usually does not solve the problems that cause lack.

Peter's declaration that "one day is with the Lord as a thousand years" II Pet. 3:8; could as well have been stated "one hour.