In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

A gift to a child

It was the first time I had ever known my dad to be ill.

Curbing pornography

Most thinking individuals agree that pornography is degrading and that there should be more effective community standards against it.
Sunlight brings cheer to those bathed in its brilliance and beauty.
An obstacle we face in loving one another is that we seem so different from each other.

Rejoicing before the rain

The day seemed like many we had had recently.

Loving the family

Success in solving family problems depends upon how thoroughly we relinquish merely human ways and means and turn resolutely to God, divine Love.

Never out of place

As a music education major at a university I always had trouble passing my quarterly voice examinations.

The guilt trip

The guilt trip—it's no joy ride.

Closer to God

We read that more and more people are turning to the Bible and going to church.
Sometimes healing eludes us because we are so intent on changing the physical condition that we overlook the real need —the self-evangelization by which we blend with the love of God through the quality of our thought, and thus experience the spiritual harmony that produces health.
A recent science fiction film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, portrayed what one capsule movie review described as "mankind's first contact with a vastly greater extraterrestrial intelligence.

Run a straight race

George hurriedly double-knotted the laces of his running shoes and jogged out of the gym.