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That question popped into my head once again. As a teacher coach, I visit many different schools within a week, and I often try to remember the outfit I wore on the previous visit to each school.

I had become very competitive while driving. On the road, I often saw myself and others engaged in one-upmanship, where I would maneuver my vehicle to “beat” them as though it were a race.

I lost my job because of the pandemic. With millions of folks overwhelming the system, filing for unemployment insurance in my state was difficult to impossible.

I was posted to an American embassy overseas, and my fiancé was working in the United States. As we made wedding preparations, we were very concerned that he might not find employment in the country where I was located and we would have to work in separate countries, possibly for several years.

A healing I once had taught me a vital spiritual lesson and has enabled me to pray more wholeheartedly and clearly for those struggling with illness in the world today. At the time I was taken ill with a fever and a cough, so I called a Christian Science practitioner to pray for me.

This author shares fresh and comforting insights about the Lord’s Prayer.

The Bible makes it so very clear that man is created in the image and likeness of God and that God loves each of us with an everlasting love. As the prophet Jeremiah expressed so beautifully, “The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee” ( Jeremiah 31:3 ).

When a museum conservator is restoring a broken artifact—say, a marble statue that is missing a body part—he or she first has to consider what the entire artifact originally looked like. The wholeness of the original statue is the model, and before starting the restoration, the conservator must first perceive this form clearly in thought.

“Bless the past. ” That new idea, shared by a friend, was a powerful wake-up call to me.

  In 1984, I was an executive for a bottled water company. As a sponsor for that summer’s Olympic games in Los Angeles, we were awarded over three million tickets for 31 venues to distribute among employees, customers, and business associates.