FROM THE editors November 1, 2004 Issue

Prayer for the peace of nations

Editor

'Life is hard." So opens M. Scott Peck's best-selling self-help book, The Road Less Traveled. A simple statement, but compelling. Mary Baker Eddy, who founded the Church of Christ, Scientist, and who founded this magazine nearly a hundred years before Peck's book was published, probably would have agreed with his statement. Her life certainly was no walk in the park: widowed at a young age, pregnant, with no means of support, she ended up eventually homeless, her child taken away. Yet her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures opens with a profoundly insightful answer to the challenge of life: "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings."

Life isn't about having it easy. Partly, it's often about overcoming obstacles—not just coping with or accepting challenges and obstacles.

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