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I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT. I was being sued.

I CAN'T REALLY EXPLAIN WHY I didn't join in, but the truth is, I just never did. I'd certainly heard about the power of gratitude.

Mary Baker Eddy Wrote, "Are we really grateful for the good already received? Then we shall avail ourselves of the blessings we have, and thus be fitted to receive more. "   Science and Health, p.

I FELT STUCK ON TWO FRONTS. I wanted to leave my job and start a new career, but the timing didn't seem right.

OUR FIRST CONTACT challenged me to remain calm and cheerful. I had requested some information but was subjected to a barrage of profanity and turned away empty-handed.

IT WAS A TIME IN MY LIFE WHEN EVERYTHING just seemed to be wrong. I was living far from family and most of my friends in a part of the country that I didn't especially care for.

WE HAD ALL BEEN ANTICIPATING THE FAMILY reunion for weeks. Especially since it had been two years since our last one.

THERE I WAS ON MY HANDS AND KNEES sprawled across a downtown sidewalk. I had just been assaulted by a gang of troublemakers.

"CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?" From family members at a holiday gathering suddenly turned fractious, to negotiators at a nuclear disarmament summit lobbying for cooler heads, the plea echoes and reechoes. But it doesn't have to go unanswered.

THE GALLERIA DELL'ACCADEMIA in Florence, Italy, houses four marble sculptures by Michelangelo. Known as the "Four Prisoners," the human figures are only partially chiseled.