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The only real frame of reference is God's truth
Children often have imaginative concepts of God. One child I talked with pictured God as a big smiling white cloud. Another child thought of Him as a dignified old man.
Am I really much more spiritually grown-up than these youngsters in my concept of God and His creation? I asked myself. Sometimes. When? That was the significant question for me. The answer: When I'm listening to what God is knowing about His creation.
There's quite a difference between looking at God from the frame of reference of personal sense and recognizing that God's thoughts, His truth, are the only real frame of reference there is. When I do the latter, I soon find myself listening. Such a listening attitude helps lift one to his true ness and being as the reflection of the one divine Mind. Every thought of this Mind—all its action—is reflected by spiritual man.
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October 8, 1979 issue
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The only real frame of reference is God's truth
MARY ANNE SHUTT
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Choose peace, not war
GERHARD NEBEL
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Healing: incidental but inevitable
ALAISTER G. SMITH
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The art of Christian Science nursing
GEORGINA TENNANT
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Who's in control?
DEBORAH THOMAS BUCHANAN
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Let's receive our gift!
HOLLY B. SUHI
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The letting go
DORIS KERNS QUINN
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Hear what God says
GEOFFREY J. BARRATT
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The diagnosis and the witness
NATHAN A. TALBOT
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Saying no to lion thoughts
Isabel Virginia Smith Summers
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Ten years ago I was in very bad shape
JOHN SEDOVA
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When I was a junior in high school, I was taking an analysis...
KRISTIN MOSELEY with contributions from OLA ANN MOSELEY
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Two years ago, when I was seven, I went skiing
DAVID T. SMITH with contributions from ELIZABETH SCOVILLE SMITH
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While working in another country, I became quite ill
PAULETTE WEBER
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While driving alone I was severely injured in an auto accident
ADELAIDE ZERCHER ANDERSON