Who wouldn't be thrilled by the biblical account of the three Hebrews and their experience in "the burning fiery furnace"! Because they are allied to the one God and refuse to worship the king's golden image, they are thrown into the furnace, bound.
Bringing spiritual solutions to as many problems as we can from day to day—for ourselves and others, for our churches, for the wider community—is working God's work.
This is not releasing, flinging out,a human thought, a message of my love,whirling over the earth's curve,or through its crust and magma,nor launching out a wishto the vagaries of wind,fragilities of hope,gestures of human ritual.
The plight of Americans in Iran, the recent turmoil in Bolivia following a coup, and the assassination of President Park Chung Hee in South Korea may suggest that the instability and violence accompanying some changes in government are almost necessary elements.
Widely publicized efforts in diplomatic circles to improve relations between world powers may nudge some people to recognize that they, also, might work to the same purpose in their own individual lives.
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