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Nothing is lost
I had just finished an after-school class and was digging through my locker. I picked up the $17 baseball glove I had just got and walked out of school to my bike. I unlocked the chain and left for home. Later, I was having a milkshake when I suddenly felt that I'd forgotten something. Then I remembered my glove. Had I brought it home? I checked, and it wasn't anywhere in the house. Then I remembered I had put it down when unlocking my bike at school. I made a dash for the door and started riding to school.
When I got there, my glove was gone. I asked some people playing baseball if they had seen it, but they said no. Tears were flowing out of my eyes as I rode home. I told my mom what had happened. She asked if I wanted her to call a Christian Science practitioner. I said, "OK."
The practitioner and I talked on the phone. She told me that all people are, in their real being, made in God's likeness. They are upright and true. They couldn't even have the thought of taking something that wasn't theirs. So I kept knowing these truths, and when I went to school the next morning my thoughts were clear and pure. But I still had a little doubt because I thought an eleven-year-old boy couldn't do things like Christ Jesus.
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March 16, 1981 issue
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Unselfing performance and competition
LIANA F. ZAMBRESKY
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We are each important
FRANKIE L. THOMAS
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The power in healing
WILLIAM SUDDABY
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Which tree?
MARILYN JANE RIMMINGTON
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"Be not afraid"
GEORGE MILLAR
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Listen...
STEVEN ALAN AVEY
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About that business venture
KATHRYN PAULSON GROUNDS
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How alive God is!
ELLEN MOORE THOMPSON
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Church—why?
DeWITT JOHN
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Practitioner and patient—before the call
NATHAN A. TALBOT
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Nothing is lost
Rick Bruner
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My mother began studying Christian Science...
JEANNE K. MARTIN
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One time I had what I thought was a serious cold
HEIDI KAY HAMMOND
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My mother was raised within the teachings of an orthodox Protestant...
VIRGIL S. UPTON with contributions from GWENDOLYN COSTELLO UPTON