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Growing up in Japan, I saw people putting their hands together, bowing slightly, with their eyes closed, in front of a shrine or a temple. It was very clear they were praying.

It had been a busy day, culminating that afternoon in an active romp with my three–year–old grandson. We'd been playing "cowboys.

Even when things are going well in my life, I enjoy praying every morning, thinking deeply about the nature of God as my Father–Mother, protector, and provider. I love remembering the Bible's promises that God is in complete control of my life, and so I can experience only peace, joy, and harmony.

When Jessie Barth was asked by the Journal to write about Christian Science treatment, she offered us this dialogue, which is based on conversations she's had with patients who have come to her for healing. When someone asks me to pray for him or her, I ask them, "Do you want prayer or do you want Christian Science treatment? "What's the difference?" they ask.

As I was saying goodbye to a Christian Science practitioner when I was just beginning to study this Science, I said, pointing to my inflamed eye, "If you can do anything about this, please do it. " I was asking for Christian Science treatment, though I didn't know much about it.

In the winter of 1999, we hit financial rock bottom. My husband and I met with consumer counseling groups.

Several years ago I was dealing with a very difficult international financial transaction that required approval by the highest level of a latin American country's government. I was told by bankers, lawyers, and business persons in that country that it was impossible to implement the proposal being considered, and that I should start working on a different solution.

The headline of the Sunday newspaper of February 10, 2002, sent a chill throughout South Africa. Our country's eighth largest bank had suffered a run by depositors who withdrew one billion rands ($87 million) in a week amid worries that bad debts in its microlending business had put the bank under pressure.

Never in the history of western civilization has there been as much choice as there is today. Never has there been so much of everything.

These are tough times for US workers. "Joblessness is right up there with war and terror as an ingredient contributing to the high national anxiety," Bob Herbert wrote in a New York Times op-ed column back in February.