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"Job has come to realize that if he is patient and waits by his food bowl, all of his needs will be supplied," says Journal contributor Benjamin F. Gladden.

THE PLAN WAS , I'd leave the wilderness cabin I'd been lent for two weeks and hike up a mountain where I'd camp at the start of the alpine. The caretaker at the mothballed logging camp drove me to the beginning of the road.

MY AUNT AND UNCLE had just moved to a place in Napa, California. I took a week's vacation to go visit them.

I was weighing in after wrestling practice when one of my friends pointed out that I had a skin disease—ringworm—on my back. Because it's considered highly contagious, everyone was freaking out.

LIKE MOST YOUNG CHILDREN , my preschool-aged daughter, Jacqueline, usually elicits the same response when people first meet her: "Oh, she's so cute. " And I have to admit that I myself have delighted in her cuteness—her heart-shaped face, her blue eyes, her sweet smile.

The word immediately appears 55 times in the Bible. One dictionary defines immediately as, "without interval of time: STRAIGHTWAY.

1905 At the age of 26, an unknown Swiss patent clerk who worked on physics in his spare time published four brilliant papers that revolutionized science and altered the way we view the world. He announced that E=mc2 (translation: matter can be converted to energy—more energy than anyone could dream of, because the speed of light [c] clocks out at a staggering 186,000+ miles per second).

One day it hit me. I could barely buckle my belt, let alone suck in my stomach anymore.

When I was still a young adult, a small bump on my scalp began to enlarge, and I became somewhat concerned. Actually, it wasn't so much the growth itself that concerned me.

When I was a teenager, I made all my own clothes. My mother couldn't afford to go out and buy all those hip things that everyone was wearing.