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WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL I always prayed to God. He was like a companion, but I didn't understand who God was.

Tenacity's summer tennis and reading program serves roughly 4,500 Boston youth annually between the ages of seven and fifteen. With a full-time staff of 40, each summer Tenacity hires 200 additional people to deliver the summer program at 30 neighborhood-based sites.

ON A RAINY GRAY MORNING IN DECEMBER , I found CEO Ned Eames early at work in his corner office. However, the view from his window doesn't look down to a sprawling city below.

LAST YEAR on a Saturday morning in December, Bobby Lewis, outfitted in winter mountaineering gear, hoisted a pack on his back and set off with a colleague on a difficult peak climb in the Colorado Rockies. They began their ascent in formidable winter weather conditions: below zero temperatures, howling winds, snow—and three high school students in tow.

Progress. One definition includes the meaning "moving.

I SAT IN MY DORM ROOM staring staring down at a page of text and feeling lost. Everything seemed just too familiar—the posters above my bed, my potted plant, the bookshelf, and the words I was reading in the weekly Bible Lesson.

MAYBE YOU KNOW THE OLD JOKE: A pedestrian in New York City asks a passerby how to get to the well-known Carnegie Hall. The person replies, not with directions to a street address, but with the answer, "Practice, practice, practice.

Journal Senior Writer Joan Taylor talks with Christian Science practitioner and teacher Earline Shoemake of La Mesa, California, who shares her straight talk on church. Earline, let's dive right into the spiritual interpretation of Church from the Glossary in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: "The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.

IF YOU LOOK AT A PERFECTLY NORMAL hand through the lens of a cracked magnifying lens, it's obvious that the hand would appear to be misshapen. Remove the cracked lens, and you see your hand as it really is.

WHENEVER JESUS HEALED THE SICK, THE LIGHT OF CHRIST, TRUTH, WAS CHASING AWAY DARKENED BELIEFS ABOUT WHAT TRULY CONSTITUTES OUR LIFE. SUNLIGHT.