Category: hope

My Fichus tree and the economy

November 6, 2008 | 5 comments

A week ago, the Fichus tree in my office was shedding leaves by the hundreds every day. It’s a little tree, about 5 feet high, and I started to worry that it was dying. “There weren’t going to be any

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