FAMINE

Joyce Voysey

Even before I opened up to Ruth, I remembered that it starts up with a famine, and that famine plays a large part in Ruth’s story. This brought the idea of the Fertile Crescent to mind.  I had placed it somehow in the Lebanon/Israel area, but Wikipedia furnished me with information and a map.  It looks like Israel misses out on most of the fertility, although Israel

THE LETTER-WRITING LEADER

It’s hot and sticky in my study, but over the past two nights, I have read all the letters in Chapter Five of Miscellaneous Writings and find the over-riding sentiment to be Mrs. Eddy’s desire for unity and brotherly love among Christian Scientists. 

 

She comes across to me as a tender, firm and fearless leader, always ahead of her students

DREAMING AWAY THE HOURS

 

A startling thought occurred to me one recent morning: are we “dreaming away the hours”?

 

I opened up Concord* on my computer and typed in “dreaming”.  Up came a passage from Mrs Eddy’s article called “The Fruit of Spirit - An Allegory”.  You can find it in Chapter IX in last month’s book, Miscellaneous Writings, p. 323.