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IN MY YOUTH, my parents had many financial ups and downs. I remember clearly the mental atmosphere in our home during the difficult times.

WHILE I WRITE THIS ARTICLE, I'm on a plane from Paris to the US for an exciting new work adventure. As an international financial advisor, I've come a long way from my childhood dreams of being an actress someday.

COACH THERESA SHERRY brought new drills and an energized mental outlook to the UC Berkeley women's lacrosse team this year. The new drills came from her years playing lacrosse as a star center for Princeton University from 2000-2004.

AFTER SEVERAL YEARS of participating in one 10K (6. 2 miles) run per year, I decided to try running a marathon (26.

"HI DARLING!" is how Myra Brown greets me when she opens the door of her apartment, which is tucked into a quiet New England village. And when I apologize for arriving empty-handed, having planned to buy flowers but finding myself, mile by mile, driving deeper into the rural countryside, she waves her hand dismissively, plunks two tea bags into two mugs and says, "Oh, I'm always so happy when people arrive without flowers!" I soon find this opening remark of Myra's to be the secret of her well-known buoyancy: she finds a way to appreciate just about everything that presents itself in her path.

The author points out that we find true rest as we understand God as Love itself.

1. Searching the Scriptures has long been a favorite pastime for Benjamin Gladden, a fact that will become more apparent when you see which of Jesus' commands Ben has written about for this month's Bible Forum.

I think we are all "in speechless prayer and reverence. " saying in the words of hymn 151 "dear Lord, [we] come to Thee.

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 18 YEARS, teachers of Christian Science from all over the world met in Boston for a family gathering. Discussion groups, panels, and just warm connecting—or reconnecting—with friends and classmates filled two days in an unseasonably mild November in 2006.

I'VE COME TO REALIZE that in order to have direction in life you don't necessarily need to have an agenda, for example, a career plan, a school plan, a relationship plan—or any plan at all. Of course, if you do have one, and it happens to work out, that's great.