In the Christian Science Bible Lesson

A number of years ago a precinct worker in Chicago asked if either my husband or I would be willing to work at the polls.

VOTING 2004

At least ten nations around the world will hold presidential elections before year's end. Now is the time to pray that love, and not hate, govern these important efforts for sound leadership.
Instead of feeling cynical at election time, you can empower yourself and your decisions with a triumvirate of hope, prayer, and action.

WILL THE FEUD EVER END?

The same spiritual power that brings healings and regeneration to chronic physical trouble is available to promote peace among warring nations.

ROAD MAP FOR HEALING

Treating thought, through prayer, brings a transforming awareness of God. And this has definite, healing results.

Accentuate the positive

During the last few years , in addition to my regular job, I've enjoyed being a volunteer baseball coach.
The wording of insurance policies and other contracts often refers to "acts of God" when designating disastrous events over which humans have no control—hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and the like—in contrast with the havoc caused by people, such as wars or environmental damage.
I came across this photograph the other day while searching for new images for greeting cards.

Hold the fries

Americans live in a Supersize culture—big cars, big houses, and big people—the last brought on by a diet of junk food and Big Macs.

PRAYER ON ALERT

Verses from the Bible become an instant prayer when the news goes out about an abducted teenage girl.
God isn't keeping score, judging us according to our daily good and bad deeds. He loves us no matter what.

WEIGHING IN FROM BERLIN

With Europeans facing a new battle of the bulge, this writer sees the need "to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord."