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As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. Proverbs 25:25 About eleven years ago, not long before riots swept through Soweto, the black township that has become synonymous with South Africa's racial struggles, my wife and I received a letter from friends in Johannesburg.

MANY OF US interact daily with friends, co-workers—even family members—from cultures, ethnic groups, and races other than our own. There's a richness in this variety, and it can bring together the best of different backgrounds.

I couldn't imagine what I had done to make my co-worker in my new office dislike me so. Unwarranted criticism and gossip assailed me.

Even at the darkest of times, when we reach out with our whole heart to God for help, we can feel His tender love. This invariably brings peace and healing.

SUDDENLY THERE'S THE Internet—that global computer network we've been hearing so much about. It took us all by surprise.

TODAY MANY PEOPLE are hungering for deeper meaning in their lives—for lasting and practical spiritual answers. The evidence of this newfound hunger for spirituality is being written about, talked about, and explored in newspapers and magazines, on television and in movies, in college classrooms and halls of government.

There was a time when I began to feel perplexed by mistakes I was making. A series of mistakes in a project that was important to me made me pull back and say, "Just a minute— this is not the kind of work that I should expect of myself.

INTEGRITY. I was reading about it everywhere, hearing about it on the news and in discussions of ethics and politics.

One hundred twentyfive years ago, Mary Baker Eddy had only a handful of students to whom she taught her method of spiritual healing. She urged them to go out and heal others, and to sell her book.

A growth started developing on my arm, and for several weeks it continued to enlarge. I became frightened, and realized that I needed to pray about this.