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Several years ago I was dealing with a very difficult international financial transaction that required approval by the highest level of a latin American country's government. I was told by bankers, lawyers, and business persons in that country that it was impossible to implement the proposal being considered, and that I should start working on a different solution.

The headline of the Sunday newspaper of February 10, 2002, sent a chill throughout South Africa. Our country's eighth largest bank had suffered a run by depositors who withdrew one billion rands ($87 million) in a week amid worries that bad debts in its microlending business had put the bank under pressure.

Never in the history of western civilization has there been as much choice as there is today. Never has there been so much of everything.

These are tough times for US workers. "Joblessness is right up there with war and terror as an ingredient contributing to the high national anxiety," Bob Herbert wrote in a New York Times op-ed column back in February.

Some time ago, when my husband had been teaching at a university for several years, his position came up for tenure. To our dismay, the vote was negative, and although several of his colleagues felt it had been unfair, we knew he had to leave the university at the end of the academic year, which was rapidly approaching.

Downsizing. Right-sizing.

When I heard that the 2003 Annual Meeting of The Mother Church & Conference would take place in Berlin, I was excited. And some questions came to mind—like, "What can I expect from this meeting? What makes it so important? Why is the meeting being held in Berlin, my hometown?" Despite the wonderful fact that I don't have to travel far to get to the meeting, I was so grateful that the overall theme will be Mary Baker Eddy's statement: "The fact remains, that the textbook of Christian Science is transforming the universe.

El Bolsón, Argentina , is what might be called a city of seekers, since many of its inhabitants left Buenos Aires in the 1960s to make their way to this town, located in a valley in the middle of the Andes Mountains. They were searching for answers, meaning, a way of understanding truth.

At a crossroads—that's where occupational therapist and certified hand therapist Julie Amendola of Arlington, Texas, found herself five years ago. And it's where part one of Julie's real-life spiritual journey left off (see the May 2003 issue of the Journal ).

Have you ever heard the expression, "rules are made to be broken?" Some people think that—especially when they believe rules keep them from having a good time. But sometimes they don't like the rules because they don't understand them.