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Thursday, March 30, 2006

Celebrating International Women's Day and the US National Women's History Month




Is this a great picture or what?? However, I noticed that there are no Anglos in this picture! Check out the Global Fund for Women - a progressive organization working to support women worldwide. I wanted to get something in these last days of this special month. I have some very fond memories of past National Women's History Month and International Women's Day.

My favorite National Women's History Month event actually happened when the rest of the world was celebrating International Women's Day earlier in March.

Around the world, a number of Christian Science Reading Rooms (specialty bookstores selling Mary Baker Eddy's writings and publications) had put up posters about Mary Baker Eddy, the author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. The posters were written in various languages and said "This Woman Never Gave Up."


(See Christian Science Reading Room website for more details)

At the time, I was working for the publisher of The Writings of Mary Baker Eddy and we were collecting accounts of how this message was resonating around the world.

We got one report from a woman researcher in Ghana and she commented "Every woman in Ghana can relate to Mary Baker Eddy." I received two almost identical reports one day, each telling how a woman came into the Reading Room, attracted by the poster, heard Mary Baker Eddy's life story and cried, saying "This woman's life is my life." These two women were from Argentina and from Australia.

A bookstore manager from Uruguay said, "Latin American women are fighters. That is why we relate so well to Mary Baker Eddy."

And a rather indignant reply from a woman in India, a senior member of a prestigous ecumenical group. "You are asking me if I know Mary Baker Eddy? She is a pioneer and I respect here. She was the first one to put forth a scientific Christianity. She helped people to heal themselves before anyone else did. Of course I know Mary Baker Eddy."

A woman from Spain was healed of cancer through Christian Science, not first from reading Science and Health, but by reading about the author. "I had to know that Mary Baker Eddy was not just being hypothetical in her book. When I read about her life, I knew that the ideas in her book were practical because she proved them."

As we close this month in the US with a quiet celebration of women, I am so very happy I got to celebrate MB Eddy's amazing life with so many people from around the world. AND I got to celebrate the stamina and persistence of women, worldwide, who "never give up" to nurture and nurse our children and our earth into future generations. Now THAT is a blessing for all mankind.






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