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"I'm perfect--God made me that way"
Meg served. The volley ball came flying to Cathy and she hit it over the net in my direction. I jumped for it and hit it back to score a point. But when I hit the ground after my jump, I came down on the side of my foot. I heard a loud pap and felt a sharp pain go through my foot. I immediately started to deny that evil could be real, and went back to play. My sports teacher asked me if I was all right, and I said Yes.
As the game went on, my foot hurt so badly I could hardly stand on it. My teacher asked me to come over and sit down and give her my foot. I was reluctant to do it, but I did. She felt it and said she thought it was broken. She asked me if I wanted her to give me a ride home. I said that I would walk. She told me I should go home right then and tell my mother. I said I would wait until sports was over. I finally persuaded her to let me stay for the last quarter, and I sat and thought about how God made everything good.
I went home, where my mother was wallpapering. I told her I had something to tell her, and I told her about what had happened and what the teacher had said. I was surprisingly not surprised at all when all she said was, "Hand me that piece of wallpaper, please." Then she added gently, "You know that your relationship with your Father-Mother God can never be separated or broken."
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February 2, 1974 issue
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The Joy of Belonging
LUCIEN P. CAILLE
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Fixed Fate or Fixed Principle?
JOHN A. GRANT
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Man Is Ageless Too
EDWARD NEWMAN SAGE
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Singing in Faith
MARIAN R. THURLOW
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SPIRITUALIZING THOUGHT
WILLIAM MILFORD CORRELL
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"He won't even listen"
BETTY CARSON FIELDS
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THE GIFT OF DAY
Doris Kerns Quinn
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"I'm perfect--God made me that way"
Deirdre M. Shaw (Age 11)
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Our Beloved Leader
Carl J. Welz
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Good Is Natural
Geoffrey J. Barratt
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It has been many years since I began the study of Christian Science...
Susie F. LeGrande with contributions from Barbara E. Kinney
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In the story of Eutychus we learn that a fall, even though seemingly...
Linda Taylor Howe
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Once while I was looking for golf balls in some bushes, I accidentally...
Bryan Day with contributions from Erma H. Drake
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Christian Science has been my family's religion for three generations
Patricia W. Ferber