Prayer and heart patients

April 5, 2006 | 1 comment

Can prayer help people overcome heart problems? A recent study headed by Dr. Herbert Benson concluded that prayer did not help heart patients recovering from bypass surgery. From my own experience, I know prayer helps people recover from heart complications.

Quicker way to healing

April 1, 2006 | 1 comment

“Don’t focus on outcomes. Focus on what you’re doing,” a tennis coach instructed her students. Many of her budding tennis players were concerned about getting the point rather than implementing their shots well. In a hurry to score, they’d miss

Swear words

March 31, 2006 | No comments yet

Is swearing as innocent as some people suggest? A recent Associated Press-Ipsos poll reports that three-quarter of Americans encounter profanity in public frequently or occasionally. Many people believe swearing has been on the rise over the last 20 years. Let’s

The light and the closet

March 29, 2006 | 4 comments

People wonder how they can keep a perspective of goodness when there are so many bad things going on in the world. Christian Science teaches us to know God as omnipresent good. The more we know God’s ever-present goodness, the

The Land of Oz

March 25, 2006 | No comments yet

Mortality is no more real than life in the Land of Oz as depicted in the classic book, “The Wizard of Oz.” After reading the book or seeing the movie, the characters and place of Oz take graphic form in