Category: hope

Conquering self and suicide

October 26, 2008 | 8 comments

A reader sent the below in which is a reputed letter from Mary Baker Eddy to James Neal, one of her star students. [ON NOVEMBER 18, 2008, IT WAS CONFIRMED BY THE MARY BAKER EDDY LIBRARY THAT THEY DO NOT

The financial storm will pass

October 13, 2008 | 3 comments

With the stock market crisis encircling the globe, millions of investors are worried about their financial future. Hopes for funded retirements have vaporized, savings for college education have dwindled, and now pensions are in doubt. What disaster will come next?

The illusion of debt

September 13, 2008 | 14 comments

While studying the story of the widow woman and her pot of oil in the Christian Science Bible lesson this week, a new insight into the unreality of debt grabbed my attention. In the story, a woman’s husband dies leaving

What can you believe in the media?

April 27, 2008 | 1 comment

I picked up this interesting observation from an Edward Jones newsletter. Why Are the Media So Negative? The Story of the Bad News Bears Two university professors, Robert Lichter and Ted Smith, once asked, “Does the media have a negative

A heartening story

March 11, 2008 | 3 comments

A reader shared this story with me today that warms the heart and brightens hope. I was told that the state of Maine had a large number of snowmobile fatalities last weekend, around seven. Most often, accidents result from people