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What makes me conscious of existing? What says, "I am aware of living" or, "I am here"? Many of us have asked ourselves these questions. Furthermore, we may have even asked, "Is there any real purpose in my being here?" In the face of the general belief that the life of man is merely a space of time between birth and death, that it is material and hence destructible, one might possibly see no purpose at all in living.

Is there anyone who, at some time or other, has not wished tomorrow were already past? An upcoming examination we dreaded or a business conference or trip not relished may have prompted the thought. Under trying circumstances, what comfort may be gained from the Biblical assurance: "It is done.

Sometimes when people are faced with a difficulty of some sort—perhaps sickness —they tend to reason along these lines: Why should this happen to me? I don't know why I should have this! I wonder if it is something I ate! Maybe I tried to do too much yesterday! And they go on and on trying to explain the discordant condition, trying to give it a cause. But does it have one? Where does this sort of wondering get anyone? No place! Can we explain erroneous and suppositional human belief? Can we justify an unhappy, unhealthy, or inharmonious condition? If we can, then it must be reality.

Utilizing God's healing power in individual experience depends on individual inspiration, on spiritualizing thought through gaining increased understanding of God and of man's relationship to Him. God is demonstrable Principle, and His laws eternally govern man's real and only being.

A Christian Scientist went to see a sick neighbor. The medical verdict was that she couldn't live for more than a very few weeks.

Prayer in Christian Science does not plead with God to change a sick mortal into a well one or a sinner into a saint. Rather, it seeks to understand more fully what God is and what He has already done for man, made in His own image and likeness.

"It isn't right. Do it over.

Christ Jesus' dramatic, triumphal entry into Jerusalem had brought him irrevocably out into the open as the Messiah of prophecy. His popularity among the common people seemed assured.

The first time I heard the words of a Lesson-Sermon I was a listening stranger. I had been brought up a devout Anglican, my father being a clergyman in the Church of England.

When somebody disappoints us, if we forgive superficially we may remain secretly wounded, feeling let down by one whose conduct matters to us deeply. Such acceptance of an impaired relationship can easily lead to overcaution in other relationships.