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It's what you do that counts
How often have you said to yourself, "I wish I could feel love for that person, but he is so unkind (difficult, cruel, boring, angry, and so forth)"? We know we should love more, and we want to; and yet we seem unable to feel that love Christ Jesus spoke of when he instructed us to love our enemies, bless them that curse us, do good to them that hate us, and even pray for those who use us despitefully. See Matt. 5:44 .
How can we feel the love that will enable us to follow his remarkable counsel? I was really searching for answers and found one in a children's book. In A Wind in the Door, Meg, the heroine, asks Proginoskes, the cherubim, how she can possibly feel love for Mr. Jenkins, the disagreeable school principal. The cherubim finds Meg's question extremely odd, answering: "Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do." Madeleine L'Engle, A Wind in the Door (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973), p. 116 .

December 27, 1982 issue
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Personality and individuality
SUEN-SZU HUANG
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Some thoughts on seeing
ALBERT CARLTON ROBERTS
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Traveling—a higher context
GLORIA GOODALE
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It's what you do that counts
FRANCINE MIENIK
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Eyes opened
JANICE JOHNSON-PALMER
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What we can do about intolerance
DeWITT JOHN
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The satisfaction and blessings of conscious worth
WILLIAM E. MOODY
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The non-event
Virginia Thesiger
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When I was a child I spent a number of weeks in...
DOROTHY C. POTTS
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"Evil is nothing, no thing, mind, nor power" (Science and Health, p. 330)
ANTOINETTE WIGGINS
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"Matt, wake up!" my mom said
MATTHEW R. DALY with contributions from SARA SANFORD DALY