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Last year, during the New Year’s holiday, I was visiting my aunt and uncle in a city that I’d never been to before.

My prayer for Greece

Students and police recently clashed in Greece after a teenage boy was shot dead by police in Athens.
At the end of this past summer, I’d been given the privilege of organizing a yearly footrace that spans the better part of a local mountain range.
My wife and I arrived in India on November 23, and I was preparing to speak on Christian Science healing in several cities when, like millions of others, I found myself praying as several terrorist attacks in Mumbai were taking place.

No wait for happiness

Soon after graduating college, I found my first real job and moved to a big city.
When our boys were young, we used to start our Christmas preparations by reading Biblical accounts of Jesus’ birth.
Many years ago, not long after my husband, Richard, and I were married, we found ourselves with very little cash at Christmastime.
Even as the world’s focus turns elsewhere, India and Pakistan are still grappling with the terrorist attack in Mumbai, which has been much in the news these last few days.

New traditions

As a kid, one of my favorite holiday traditions was sharing a room with my big sister on Christmas Eve as we listened to my mom read the classic tale, “The Night Before Christmas.
One Christmas, my family and I were in the Blue Mountains in eastern Oregon, where we entertained several guests at our cabin.
Tuning out news about acts of intimidation in the world can be tempting.
As we hear news of wildfires in California and see pictures on the Internet or television, we may ask ourselves, “What can I do to help those in trouble?