In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

A giant road grader.
One reason people respond so strongly to the parables of Christ Jesus is that they always are framed in terms of believable human circumstances.

Do you love the Messiah?

For unto us a child is born.
How wonderful to have been one of the visitors who came to see the infant Jesus that first Christmastide! Perhaps there were some the Bible doesn't mention: curious townspeople or strangers who were in Bethlehem for the tax enrollment as Mary and Joseph were.

A lesson from the lions' den

When the weather started getting cold, Brooks and his mom discovered that he had outgrown his winter jacket.

SECOND THOUGHT

From Christianity Today, June 15, 1984
[Name withheld by request]
Bethlehem was bustling.

You're lovely, not lonely!

The red light was blinking on the answering machine.
Materiality is as different from reality—the universe of Spirit—as the material and mortal account of creation in the second chapter of Genesis differs from the spiritual account in the first chapter.

Abundance now

Anybody who has been in a desert is aware of what water means to life.
Our first skiing lessons had been a great success, and every member of the family was enthusiastic about learning and sharing a new sport.