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I love my dad dearly , but every summer when I've gone to visit him, it seems like something's gone wrong. I've gotten sick or been stung by a bee—something.

For some years my business required me to work a great deal throughout Asia. I traveled to Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, and many other countries.

Everyone was worried about the drought. Not only was our water being rationed, but destructive fires had begun to break out on the Avila, the mountain that overlooks our city of Caracas, Venezuela.

This is a story of promise and hope for anyone who has suffered from panic attacks or depression. I used to be scared to wake up in the morning because I was so unsure of what the day might bring.

Christian Science practitioners are people who devote their time to helping others find healing through prayer. A list of these individuals, who are available to the public in countries throughout the world, can be found in the back of this magazine.

One day many years ago , when I was still relatively new in the public practice of Christian Science, I was sitting on a park bench eating my lunch. A man walking hand in hand with his young son stopped to talk with me for a moment.

You've been earnestly praying for physical healing, but healing seems to be taking longer than usual. Or you're a Christian Science practitioner who has a patient whose healing is delayed.

Whenever Pastor Billy Ray prays the blessing at the soup kitchen at Second Baptist Church in Evanston, Illinois, he says solemnly at the end, "and we ask these things in Jesus' name, and together we say Amen. " He sets it up so that everybody joins in a hearty "amen," but it's more than just a good way to finish up the grace.

Wanting to know why is a characteristic that has brought great progress to humanity. It is behind many useful inventions and discoveries.

I covered the First International Interdisciplinary Conference on The Science of Whole Person Healing last spring where members of the scientific and professional health-care community convened, and the common denominator was a quest to end suffering.  See "United in a quest to end suffering (through a change of thought)," Journal, June 2003, pp.