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When I was nineteen, I lost my mother. Christian Science quickly healed me of grief because it gave me a diviner sense of motherhood.

For years I had been believing without question that I was a mortal created in a material form and surrounded by other mortals, all with individual minds and bodies. Possibly you've believed the same about yourself.

Throughout her writings Mrs. Eddy employs seven terms for God interchangeably—Spirit, Mind, Soul, Principle, Truth, Life, and Love.

There has been much discussion in recent years about the effects of disposition, emotion, and the state of one's thinking on physical well-being. Even though these factors are still generally little understood, many physicians are taking them into serious account when treating certain illnesses.

Because God, the creator of the universe, is the divine governing intelligence, He includes all evidence of Life and controls that evidence. Growth, then, is governed by God, and is not material but spiritual.

It is sometimes argued that one who is relying exclusively on Christian Science for healing is not doing all he can for himself and that he should enlist the additional aid of material medicine. After all, it is argued, God made medicine and works through those who practice medicine and surgery.

An individual may not give much outward indication that he has passed through a major spiritualization of thoughts. But for him everything has changed.

Through acknowledging what is already, unalterably true of God and His spiritual idea, man, we become responsive to the healing power of divine Truth. We're encouraged to press on until a trouble is completely healed.

It is a great joy to read The Christian Science Monitor. We need to make the necessary effort to make time for this reading.

Shyness can be healed—and should be. People often assume that shyness in a child will soon be outgrown or overcome by the ebullience of youth.