In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

The Woman in the Café

BRETT L. STAFFORD

I entered a restaurant on a chilly winter morning and ordered hot chocolate and a doughnut.

FLINT LEWIS TOWNSEND

Do we have to accept Shakespeare's parody on old age: "Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything"?

J. THOMAS BLACK

Most retired people want to live full and useful lives.

BARBARA M. VINING

Our kindergartner was hit on the forehead by another child.

NANCY H. MINTER

Beholding God's spiritual and wholly good universe, we experience the atmosphere of heaven—peace and harmony—right where we are.

DARREN STONE NELSON

The bad things happening to people in many parts of the world occupy thought to a great extent these days.

Amy Peach Hawkes

Tanya and her parents were going to Grandmother and Grandfather's house.

MARK M. WILLIAMS

When Moses led the Israelites through the wilderness, the community needed rules to follow.

DAVID C. KENNEDY

Each of us is rooted in eternity, a distinct member of God's infinite, spiritual creation.

HUBERTA F. RANDALL

Pity and sympathy are among the finest expressions of human nature and are often sorely needed.

CARL J. WELZ

When we observe birds flying overhead, we might wonder at their freedom from earth-binding limitations.

JOHN P. CHAMBERLAIN

Human government does not always operate the way we think it should.