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A FICTION that we all need to confront is that there are challenges too complicated or too vast for us to understand, let alone heal. A lesson I learned years ago blessed me enormously when I was a Christian Scientist in business.

IF HUMAN BEINGS A FEW EONS FROM NOW visited a new universe, they'd probably expect to learn some incredibly new things. But to the degree they insisted on holding on to the "facts" of their old universe and considered them the only possible standard for truth, their exploration of the new universe might be frustratingly slow.

HUMANITY has long been victimized by erratic natural forces, acts of God, as they are commonly called. Is this always to be? Not if we are willing to address the challenge through divine Science, beginning with the insight revealed to Elijah about the divine Ego.

PEOPLE WANT TO DO MORE WITH THEIR LIVES. They want to experience more, give more, expand in all directions.

WHEN CHALLENGES IN LIFE SEEM OVERWHELMING, it's encouraging to know that there is a spiritual standard that provides a healing solution to any difficulty. The Scriptures promise us, "When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him" ( Isa.

Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick. —Matthew 14:14 COMPASSION MOVED JESUS TO PERFORM WORKS OF HEALING.

BACK IN THE EARLY '90S , some family members and I trekked north from California to Oregon. We stopped for a little rest and recreation at a coastal hotel known for its focus on books.

Barry Huff doesn't waste a minute. Flying west in the wee hours of the morning, he proves that—even at 30,000 feet—he can tie up the loose ends on his most recent Journal piece.

FROM THE BEGINNING, Tibet struck me as a place peopled by quiet dissenters. On the one hand, there are the Tibetans who silently oppose the Chinese occupation; on the other, there are those who oppose the material world altogether in search of the spiritual.

IT'S NO FUN BEING THE TARGET of mean or unfair treatment. Is there anything you can do when someone mistreats you for no apparent reason? When I met my future mother-in-law for the first time, I was caught completely off-guard by her immediate hostility and unkindness.