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When I woke up on Thanksgiving Day in 1994 , I knew it wasn't going to be only a holiday of gratitude and celebration. It would also be a pivotal day for me.

Every day we are confronted with the headlines : Escalating Economic Gloom Ahead. Homes and jobs lost.

I often wonder where I'll find enough time in the day to pray for myself, let alone for the world. Or whether praying for the resolution of global issues such as poverty and violence is too daunting a task.

I subscribe to two newspapers—a well–regarded local paper and The Christian Science Monitor. Each has its strengths.

I was raised on The Christian Science Monitor. Or, perhaps more accurately, it took an active role in raising me.

How do you respond to local, national, and international news? While answers to that question will undoubtedly vary, it's been said that, love it or hate it, you simply can't ignore the news. And why would you want to? News is the instrument for disseminating information important to the public.

When Mary Baker Eddy decided that her Church needed to publish a daily newspaper, she offered little explanation as to why. In her August 8, 1908, order to the Board of Trustees of The Christian Science Publishing Society, her certainty of the Monitor's importance was unmistakable, even though details were lacking: "It is my request that you start a daily newspaper at once, and call it the Christian Science Monitor.

" IS THERE NO BALM IN GILEAD ; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?" ( Jer. 8:22 ).

ENTER THE WORDS HUMILITY AND SUCCESS in a Google search on the Internet, and hundreds of references will show that humility is as much a valued source of success in the business world as in politics or religion. This raises the question why a humble thought should be a more effective asset than its opposite, pride.

INSTANTANEOUS HEALINGS. Healings that "take longer.