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After I graduated from college and spent a year teaching overseas, I found myself back at home with my parents. I had no clue about what to do or where to go next.

It was only Wednesday, but I felt as though I'd already worked a full week. Our department was on an extremely tight deadline for a project that needed to be completed by that Friday, and we were far from finished.

A friend of mine had just finished his technical training program in the United States Air Force. Arriving for his first assignment at a Strategic Air Command base, he looked forward eagerly to attending church services on the base.

Those only who are tried in the furnace reflect the image of their Father. —Mary Baker Eddy Miscellaneous Writings, p.

When I was a child, I studied the violin. I remember my first lesson vividly.

As Magritte illustrated in so many of his paintings, treacherous images are counterfeits of what's real. Sometimes, though, they look so real that we're fooled into believing whatever they're projecting on the canvas of our lives, including our body.

Among Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte's many thought-provoking paintings, The Treachery of Images produces persistent discussion. Many of his works present visual paradoxes, but this particular painting explicitly raises the question "What is real?" The top three quarters of the painting shows a pretty ordinary-looking pipe; underneath are the words: "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" (This is not a pipe).

Many of us are privileged to know people who have great faith in God and love Him deeply. Such men and women have inspired many by their examples, teaching volumes with their words and lives.

The road to healing and happiness is neither mysterious nor miraculous. It's not something out of reach by miles or millimeters, years or seconds.

It had been three weeks since I'd seen Chase, the first-grader whom I tutor in reading. As he got into my car, he expressed great happiness at seeing me.