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PERFECT POSTCARD SCENES GREETED US in every direction during our family vacation at Lake Champlain. The rambling, yellow farmhouse shaded by old maples and decorated with red geraniums.

THIS WASN'T ABOUT BODY IMAGE . It was about control—controlling the one thing in my life I felt I could control.

LAST SUMMER , my mom and I decided to study the seven synonyms, or names, for God that Mary Baker Eddy gave in Science and Health. They are: Principle, Mind, Soul, Spirit, Life, Truth, and Love.

FLIP THROUGH ANY PARENTING MAGAZINE and it's easy to feel overwhelmed. There's advice on the right foods to feed your child, the right age to potty train, the right way to discipline.

OUR WORLD has been going through a period of great disunity. We see it between nations and within nations, as well as within business, family relationships, educational and other institutions, and even within church.

I THOUGHT SHE might talk to me about God's unconditional love. Maybe remind me that I was God's cherished and cared-for child.

THERE'S A GREEK LEGEND that when Gordious was made King of Phrygia, he dedicated his oxcart to Zeus and tied it with a knot of complex loops and intertwinings. An oracle foretold that whoever loosed the knot would rule all Asia.

AS A COLLEGE STUDENT , I loved backpacking and learning about how to get along in the great outdoors, so I took a university course from a former Green Beret who had honed his survival skills in Vietnam. As you might imagine, he was unusually adept at surviving under difficult circumstances—and had a lot to teach us.

I PRACTICALLY gagged on my coffee. I'm going to what? I thought.

" IF YOU can't make this move, don't run this rapid," our experienced river guide called out to the group. Then he shoved off with his canoeing partner to show us the proper route to take.