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I Used To Wonder why this turned out differently for me than it did for Helen. Did she pray better than I did? Is that why she got her man? But then I remembered that our goal was not to find husbands, but to improve our dismal view of men.

It Seemed that everywhere I looked, I saw terrific women dating less-than-terrific men. Men who'd left their wives for younger women.

GIVING UP WORRY is one of the things I'd like to do more consistently. One of the worst things about worry is that it takes my mental time away from more productive thinking.

SOME YEARS AGO , my community was hit with a media blitz about an impending flu epidemic. Fear-filled conversations among my colleagues were stimulated by the media coverage.

Anyone who has seen the mobs of reporters that follow celebrities and politicians knows that the press can be an overwhelming presence. Take a moment—and a bit of poetic license—to imagine what it would have been like to be a reporter in Jesus' time and to be covering the "Jesus beat.

Looking back In 1870s America, a woman's prospects for a purposeful career outside her home were slim. But for Julia Bartlett, prospects for life itself looked bleak.

A mother prays not just to restore her son‘s health, but to see the perfection of God‘s creation demonstrated.

When my brothers and I were in grade school, each of us received an award for perfect attendance. As I think about it: 3 boys x 6 years = 18 school years without an absence.

Talk to someone battling illness or disease who's decided to turn away from medicine and pursue alternative forms of health care, and you'll likely hear something about the need to attend to "the whole person. " Call it "spirit" or "soul," mental or spiritual well-being, but there's an insatiable yearning for wholeness that demands more than just physical treatment.

A few years ago I was in a Christian Science nursing facility, floundering in my effort to understand what makes life worth living. My husband and many of my friends had passed on.