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Dear Reader

Our cover drawing this week is by someone well known to readers of The Christian Science Monitor—illustrator Shirley Horn.

"I love you, brother!"

The message of Christ, Truth, is irrepressible. It can break through barriers and restore our faith and our love for each other.

POSITIVE PRESS

From Christianity Today, February 3, 1989
People still yearn for the "good news" of resurrection—that man is Spirit's creation, the expression of divine Life.
In the office, at church, in family, there are few more corrosive elements than self-righteousness. This writer found prayer helped to neutralize it.

Our goal is spirituality

Spirituality isn't some unreasonable aim beyond us; it is actually the way to find who we are.

Obedience

The gentle ShepherdLeads His sheepTenderly, watchfully.

The descent of the Holy Ghost

A challenge during her college years brought the author a new view of what Jesus meant when he promised a Comforter who would teach us all things.

You have a friend

No matter how grown up we are, we can't outgrow our relationship with God.

For parents

Careers, residences, responsibilities, world conditions, taxes, and just about everything else change from time to time. But our relationship to God and our love for one another remain constant in calling us nearer to God's love and direction.

Free indeed

The quest for freedom has made the headlines recently. True freedom is a gift of God; we find it when we glimpse our spiritual selfhood in His likeness.

When Eric prayed

Once Eric and his friend got separated from his parents at a big fair.
Many years ago I had several nervous breakdowns that were devastating at the time.
Nine years ago, as I was going through a difficult divorce, I had my first healing through Christian Science.
When I was about six or seven I became ill.
When I lost my husband, it seemed to me that the world would fall in upon me.
In 1982 when I was in England, I woke one night to find the membrane in the palate of my mouth had swollen alarmingly.

I grew up on a farm

I grew up on a farm.