your decisions April 26, 1999 Issue

How do you make big decisions? Do you discuss all the options with family and friends? Make long lists of pros and cons? Research all the ramifications?

While these may be useful steps, they may not bring the clarity necessary to make a confident decision. What's needed is spiritual light.

We hope you'll find that the prayers, spiritual study, and healing experiences authors share in this new column help bring the right choices and truly satisfying decisions to light in your life.

"Your decisions will master you, whichever direction they take." MARY BAKER EDDY

So much to do, so little time

By Susan Booth Mack

There are few times in life when we are so regularly and thoroughly graded, measured, tested, and compared as when we are in school. The pressures and the lack of time to meet demands can feel overwhelming.

I've learned some important lessons about how to survive academic demands—and even thrive on them—by turning to God in prayer. In fact, my biggest break-through came at a period when I was under such pressure that I saw no possible recourse but prayer.

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