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Destroying destructiveness
Have you ever tried to destroy an idea? Perhaps you've resisted an idea, rejected it, stormed at it, only to find at the end of the day that it was still there, quietly waiting for you to appreciate it. Rather like throwing something at a sunbeam on the wall and watching it continue to shine quite unharmed.
The value of things that can't be destroyed is made more apparent by the destructiveness now prevalent all over the world. Ideas come high in this category. But what sort of ideas are truly indestructible? Spiritual ideas. The spiritual facts of being. These are basic, enduring, unchanging. They have always been true and always will be true. And we recognize them through prayer, which arouses in us a deepening conviction of their truth, spiritualizing our thought and making the pointlessness of destructiveness apparent. Then rebellious and destructive feelings progressively disappear.

April 11, 1983 issue
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Good: how many sources?
KATHLEEN S. LUNDMAN
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God's law, not Murphy's
JUDITH ANN HARDY
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Self-government? or a ticket to Tarshish?
THOMAS C. ASHER
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Destroying destructiveness
EVELYN M. S. DUCKETT
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Sure dwelling
DARREN NELSON
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Here we stand
ELIZABETH GLASS BARLOW
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Prayer
ELIZABETH MELICHAR MARTH
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Radical reliance and the church member
CAROLYN B. SWAN
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The immediate availability of God's help
WILLIAM E. MOODY
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Who needs organization?
Marrin Hibbard Robinson
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Christian Science was first brought to the attention...
MILDRED S. FISHMAN
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It is impossible to fully express my endless gratitude to God for...
MARGARET V. FERRIS
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Two summers ago I went to the 1981 National Scout Jamboree
DARRIN SMITH with contributions from G. EDWARD GARNHART
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My family has been in Christian Science for four generations
CAROLYN E. SCHOOLEY with contributions from JOHN SCHOOLEY