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December 18, 2008

New Year's Eve plans—and prayers

Ginger Mack

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.

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December 15, 2008

My prayer for Greece

Kari Mashos

Students and police recently clashed in Greece after a teenage boy was shot dead by police in Athens.

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December 4, 2008

God's grace up on the ridgeline

David Summerfield

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.

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December 4, 2008

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.

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December 2, 2008

No wait for happiness

Sunny Schneberger

Soon after graduating college, I found my first real job and moved to a big city.

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December 1, 2008

Prayer in the midst of Christmas controversy

Pat Sharp

When our boys were young, we used to start our Christmas preparations by reading Biblical accounts of Jesus’ birth.

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December 1, 2008

Christmas fellowship and ‘Immanuel’

Melissa Hayden

Many years ago, not long after my husband, Richard, and I were married, we found ourselves with very little cash at Christmastime.

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December 1, 2008

Peace, not terror, for India and Pakistan

Rosalie E. Dunbar

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.

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November 24, 2008

New traditions

Laura Forbes

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.

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November 24, 2008

Mountains, snowmobiles, and angels

Evan Mehlenbacher

One Christmas, my family and I were in the Blue Mountains in eastern Oregon, where we entertained several guests at our cabin.

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November 20, 2008

Facing down intimidation with prayer

Verena Linning

Tuning out news about acts of intimidation in the world can be tempting.

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November 18, 2008

The California fires and helping those in need

Pam DeBolt

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?

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